https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18552
--- Comment #2 from feklushkin.de...@gmail.com --- > What is the use case where this matters? RDBMSes (at least Postgres) supports int type of year. With restrictions associated with Julian day (4713 BC boundary) it can represent up to 294276 AD. When converting test values to and from Postgres I found mismatch for such big numbers. > The documenattion makes it pretty clear that Date does not support values > beyond what a short can hold Does not overrides necessity of assert, at least --