[Python-Dev] xmlrpclib and dates before 1900

[Christian Heimes]

Martin v. Löwis schrieb:
> 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.

Does xmlrpc support dates for 1900? For historic dates the Julian Day
Number family (MJD or JDN) or Rata Die are more appropriate and much
easier to use. I wish somebody could add both to the datetime module.

Christian