[Python-Dev] xmlrpclib and dates before 1900

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> anyone care to take a look at:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue2014
> It's about xmlrpclib not being able to send datetime objects with dates
> before 1900.
> I would like to see this go in and would also like to work on
> http://bugs.python.org/issue1745722
> (xmlrpc wsgi support).
> But this only makes sense if someone also commits it...

Can you please explain why this is an important problem?
Dates before 1900 have all passed long ago, so they shouldn't
occur that often in real applications.

Regards,
Martin