New submission from Sam Wainwright :
The value of datetime.MINYEAR (1) seems arbitrarily restrictive. There are
plenty of reasons why users of the standard library might want to work with
negative years. Workarounds involving things like astropy don't work in all
cases, particularly
Change by Sam Wainwright :
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components: Library (Lib)
nosy: Sam Wainwright
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Change datetime.MINYEAR to allow for negative years
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.7
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