That's a bummer. I have just looked at the MySql manual and they say they only support dates down to 1970 I know on Linux the timestamp goes down to 1901.

But you can still use the MySql datetime column type on dates between 1901 and 1970 and convert it using strtotime() function in PHP.

If they used a 64 bit timestamp it would have enabled them to have date range of 584,942,417,355 years. That should see us fit from the begninning of time till doomsday. Why didn't they think of that one