Lars Gustäbel <l...@gustaebel.de> added the comment:

This issue is related to issue13158 which deals with a GNU tar specific 
extension to the original tar format. In that issue a negative number in the 
uid/gid fields caused problems. In your case the problem is a negative mtime 
field.

Reading these particular number fields was fixed in Python 3.2. You might be 
able to read the archive in question with that version. You should definitely 
try that.

Besides that, I was unable to reproduce the error you report. I just did some 
tests and could not even open my test archive, because it was not recognized as 
a tar file. I didn't come as far as the os.utime() call.

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