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I love that the commits are attributed to the original authors: Amendment XXVII Author: James Madison Date: May 7 15:00:00 1999 -0400 https://g

• sova 7y ago
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• alexjm 7y ago
  It looks like this is a limitation because Git stores dates as seconds after the Unix epoch (1970-01-01). The underlying file format allows storing negative numbers, which would represent dates before the epoch, but most toolchains don't handle them correctly. Here's a pretty good summary: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21787872/is-it-possible-to-set-a-git-commit-to-have-a-timestamp-prior-to-1970 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21787872/is-it-possible-...