Datetime field for dates before 1970

[apeisa]

Currently datetime can only be used for dates which has unix timestamp 0 or above. I noticed this when tried to use datetime field as birthday-field.

I guess this would be pretty easy fix to allow pre-1970 dates also? Using signed integer field on database and allow negative values to be saved.

[ryan]

Updated to support negative values in the timestamp, and committed. It had to do with validation rather than the DB field type. We're using a MySQL datetime field for storage, so that isn't bound to the limits of timestamps. We're using timestamps just on the PHP side for sortability, sanitization and abstraction from a defined date format.

[apeisa]

Great stuff, thanks Ryan!

[bfncs]

I just stumbled over this as well, thanks a lot for fixing it already, Ryan.

Just one question: I was looking for the commit that fixes this but couldn't find it on Github. Can anyone find it?

[Joss]

Yep, and a special thanks from all of us YOU who were born before 1970 ..... *cough*

[Soma]

I'm out.