OverflowError: mktime argument out of range ???

[Jorgen Bodde]

Hi  List

I am working on an app to store guitar songs I am practicing, and for
the fun of it I want to store the date of songs when they were
originally made. So far so good..

However, my taste of music is "Rag Time Blues" and that os OLD, very
OLD music. So it happened I entered a song from the date " 28 dec
1928".

It appears time.mktime cannot handle these 'extremities' ? I get an
overflow error. is there by any chance a solution to this? I do know
modern languages support at least 1900 as date (and now that I come to
think of it, songs from J.S. Bach are excluded from entering as well)
..

This is what I try:

>>> time.mktime((1928, 12,28, 0, 0, 0,  0, 0, 0))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: mktime argument out of range

The only solution I can think of is making a custom time class that
handles all years, dates and months, but that is plain silly. I want
to be able to use the long date formatting etc, and that would mean
rewriting that part as well.

Any help is appreciated!
- Jorgen