Re: Back-dating commits--way back--for constitution.git

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

"Joel C. Salomon" [off-list ref] wrote:

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quoted

      $ 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