QDate range extended

[Thiago Macieira]

Jason Harris wrote:
>Since David brought it up...if the -4712 limit is essentially arbitrary,
> I'd like to request that it be removed.  I guess I've made my case
> before for wanting very remote dates in KStars.  I understand that most
> other apps won't need a larger range of years, but if there's nothing
> stopping you from providing a much larger range of years, then why not
> do it?

-4712 is not arbitrary. And I thought you would be the first to realise 
what year that is: QDate allows you to go as far back as julian day 0.

You cannot go even more backwards because QDate has an *unsigned* int as 
its only member. So the earliest it can see is julian day 0.

Are you sure all the internal computations you have in KStars are valid 
from the time of the dinosaurs until the Sun being no more?

(In fact, does KStars account for the Sun's eventual expansion to a red 
giant?)

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