Has this issue been resolved?

I'd like a timestamp MVA so that I can filter by a person's age.

UNIX_TIMESTAMP ???
ughh.. this thing is horrible. Only dates after 1970? Did nothing
happen before 1970?

There's a man here back in 1999 making a fairly good argument for
UNIX_TIMESTAMP returning a signed rather than unsigned INT and getting
flack from a lot of people who only consider dates to be file time
stamps.

http://lists.mysql.org/mysql/15585

So hey hum... it's not going to achieve what I wanted.

I'm getting my hands dirty in the SQL again with nasty little things
like...

(((TO_DAYS(`models`.`dob`) * 86400) +
TIME_TO_SEC(`models`.`dob`)) -
(TO_DAYS("1970-01-01") * 86400)) AS `dob`

nasty stuff but it's better than treating every date before 1970 as
zero.
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