From: Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:41:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Back-dating commits--way back--for constitution.git
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=O1qw=xeP3v4X+Yqrb1884azbxLDxFz3PUj=9a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100802183420.GN25268@spearce.org>

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
>>       $ git commit --author="The Philadelphia Convention <>" \
>>        --date="Mon, 17 Sep 1787 12:00:00 EST"
>>
>> but that's not actually setting the commit date to 1787.
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong, or is Git (quite reasonably) unable to
>> accept commit dates that far in the past?
>
> Its probably running into problems with time_t on your system being a
> 32 bit value, and thus having trouble going before some time in 1901.

I was afraid of that.  Oh, well.

Thanks,
--Joel