Standard way to express a date in a real number?

[sdhyok]

Tyler Eaves <tyler at cg1.org> wrote in message news:<bEGma.462$8c4.82 at tornadotest1.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> Nicola Mingotti wrote:
> 
> > import time
> > t = time.time()
> > # t is the number you asked for
> > 
> > If you want to know more about this look at
> > the "time" module .
> > 
> > 
> > bye.
> 
> The problem is that you can only represent dates from 1970 - 2030-someting
> that way.

So, this is not the solution I am seeking.
Better module to handle wider range of time?