On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html