From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>
Subject: Entering Old Dates in the Date Time Prompt
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:26:17 +0000
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I am not sure if this counts as a bug. If I try to enter dates before 
1970 in the prompt it defaults to the current year. I assume that this 
is to do with Unix dates starting in 1970. The reason for doing this is 
to enter some birth dates in org using the prompt.

Ian.