First commits has wrong dates

[bheisig]

The Grundgesetz was first announced on 1949-05-23. But as you may notice the first commit dates are not older than 1970-01-01. Commit dates are based on the Unix time which starts at that date. The Unix time is defined as a number of seconds. Git (and GitHub, too) has a limitation that only positive numbers of seconds is parsed correctly. For a Unix time before 1970-01-01 we need negative numbers of seconds to be allowed.

tl;dr: We are currently unable to fix some commit dates due to technical limitations.

[floscher]

By now it is only a GitHub problem, since git now supports pre-1970 dates as well as dates in the far future (see Legilibre/Archeo-Lex#47). The web viewer of the French legislature project shows commits from 1803: git blame view of the French "Code Civil"

For pushing to a git remote, the settings of that remote repository need to be adapted (see c3e/grundgesetz-dev#28).