Hans Werner May nc-may...@netcologne.de added the comment:
Out of curiosity: where did you get a file that was last modified in 1956?
No idea, this was a jpeg file, probably downloaded from internet. Btw, on Linux
you can manipulate the creation date with the touch command, so it is possible
New submission from Hans Werner May nc-may...@netcologne.de:
Bug in tarfile:
In extractall, when a file exists in tarball with changetime older than (I
don't know, in my case it was year 1956) tarfile raises an Overflow exception:
File /usr/lib64/python2.7/tarfile.py, line 2298, in utime