Indeed negative values for a date before 1970/01/01. That's the common approach.Marc56us wrote:The main problem is how to ensure compatibility with old programs?
All date functions use the number of seconds since 1970/01/01
So how to set an earlier date and stay compatible?
Use negative values?
Change the initial date? (so it would take another library for the old programs to still work)
And if that's not an option, a second more advance date library is also a possibility.
The same has been done with the VectorDrawing library.
There have been multiple feature requests in the past that are not difficult to implement but haven't been implemented.Marc56us wrote:If it was simple Fred would have done it a long time ago.
I think it's just a matter of choice.