Re: Time/date problem

[Olin Shivers <shivers@lambda.ai.mit.edu>]

    From: Chris.Bitmead@alcatel.com.au (Chris Bitmead uid(x22068))
    Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme.scsh

    Unix time is only meant to represent times after 1/1/70. 

Could you give me your reference for this? I have simply seen that
a Unix time value is the number of elapsed seconds since 0:0:0 UTC 1/1/70,
which does not require you to limit the times thus described to moments
occurring after 0:0:0 UTC 1/1/70. I have seen nothing in the Posix spec
saying only non-negative values are supported.

As further evidence, consider that the time and date routines on my Unix
system work fine on pre-Epoch times.
    -Olin