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WordPress, please fix the date limitations to allow backdating historical information before 1970. I am using my wordpress install to share newsletters and other family writing from the past century, and maybe even older. I have been setting the post timestamp for the dates of these letters and events, but so far I am seemingly unable to set a date earlier than 1969-12-31, 6:00:00 pm. If I set a date earlier than that, the date is automatically set for this date.
Dates/times are normally based off the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch (01 Jan 1970 00:00:00), however, PHP can handle dates/times before then (they are handled as negative numbers) and MySQL can similarly handle date times prior to 1970.
Testing reveals that MySQL will handle datetimes into the 1800s, but WordPress treats those datetimes as being 01-01-1970. WordPress is applying a rule to the post datetime and treating anything before the Unix Epoch as equal to the Unix Epoch.
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