Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > In any case, it is a question unrelated to the work I performed in this > patch series: the raison d'être of these patches is to allow timestamps to > refer to dates that are currently insanely far in the future. Yes, but the job of the maintainer is to prevent narrow-focused individual contributors from throwing us into a hole we cannot dig out of by closing the door for plausible future enhancements.