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Comment by cpeterso | Hacker News Reader

I love that the commits are attributed to the original authors:

  Amendment XXVII
  Author:    James Madison 
  Date:      May 7 15:00:00 1999 -0400

https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution/commit/3c...

I wish the commits were dated with the changes' original dates. Perhaps they and GitHub's UI is just confused by pre-1970 epoch dates.

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It looks like this is a limitation because Git stores dates as seconds after the Unix epoch (1970-01-01). The underlying file format allows storing negative numbers, which would represent dates before the epoch, but most toolchains don't handle them correctly. Here's a pretty good summary:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21787872/is-it-possible-...

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