Thanks again, I will explain what happened. I am a python newbie. The time and datetime modules are confusing at the beginning, but after diving into them I started to understand the structure. So what I did was using the time module for date storage, but I came to understand that time is actually more used for file dates and times. That would explain the epoch and 1970 boundaries as there are not much files before the pre-PC era to keep timestamps for.
Basically it would have been clearer if the time module would have been called 'filetime' as datetime kind of supercedes the time by removing all boundaries and still presenting all methods to the user. Onca again, it was confusing for someone starting with python, but I think I got it now. I cannot claim it was not documented, I was more surprised that there was a boundary and decided to ask before reading the python docs, sorry .... With regards, - Jorgen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
