[issue6090] zipfile: Bad error message when zipping a file with timestamp before 1980

[Senthil Kumaran]

Senthil Kumaran <senthil at uthcode.com> added the comment:

Fixed in all active branches. Thanks for the patch, Petri. 
Mark, for this issue, raising ValueError from zipfile was seemingly a  right thing to do, the previous error from struct for a side effect of sending a value lower than 1980.

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