QDate range extended

[Thiago Macieira]

David Jarvie wrote:
>On Wed Jun 14  8:13 , Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> sent:
>>David Jarvie wrote:
>>>I've been changing the KDateTime code to cater for the extended range,
>>> but I have noticed that QDate doesn't flag dates
>>> despite the statement in the comments that -4712 is the minimum year
>>> value. I suspect that QDate may be capable of representing dates
>>> before that year (with negative Julian day numbers), but
>>> clarification is needed, and either the comment or the validation
>>> code in QDate needs to be changed.
>>
>>The exact minimum date is Nov 25th, -4713.
>
>I set the date to 5th September -4713, and QDate::isValid() returns
> true.

Ok, I can confirm that: it means the algorithm works correctly for dates 
beyond JD 0, which in turn means I need to check the value of the year 
I'm given.

Fixed. I'm going to update the qt-copy patch.

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