From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:47:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Back-dating commits--way back--for constitution.git
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> The headers inside commit (and tag) objects are stored in text form,
> so they are not limited to 32-bit value.  You would have to use system
> that has 64-bit time_t, or patch git.

I thought the internal representation of our time was "unsigned long", no?
How can you represent anything before Unix epoch?