Re: Support for tv_sec=-1 (one second before the epoch) timestamps?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> In real life it's often needed to store time_t pointing before the
> UNIX epoch.

I am inclined to doubt it - "real life" needs to store such times,
certainly, but I have yet to see a case where it imposes any particular
representation for that storage.  (Without enlarging time_t, you can't
go before late 1901 even with full support for negative time_t anyway.)

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