Comment 4 for bug 1670243

Jelmer you are clearly blocking on this clean and simple fix for no reason.

It's a real problem for Breezy, because with this type of contibutions management, you don't risk to have other new contributors anymore... See "Hard to land patches"
https://www.jelmer.uk/pages/bzr-a-retrospective.html

The error before 1900 can be fixed, and yes it would be great, but step by step, this first fix is needed before.

Practically speaking it seems that you have a programmer only vision of the VCS use cases. This is the text of my Mercurial fix:
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg//rev/87c6ad2251d8
"DVCS are very useful to store various texts (as legislation) written before Unix epoch."
The modifications of the laws and the applicable versions of the laws can also be planned in the (far) future.