+;;; In order to accomodate universal times between January 1st 1900
+;;; and sometime on December 13th 1901, I'm doing the same calculation
+;;; as described above in order to handle dates in that interval, by
+;;; normalizing them to March 1st 1903, which shares the same special
+;;; properties described above (except for the 400-year property, but
+;;; this isn't an issue for the limited range we need to handle).
+
+;;; One open issue is whether to pass UNIX a 64-bit time_t value on
+;;; 64-bit platforms. I don't know if time_t is always 64-bit on those
+;;; platforms, and looking at this file reveals a scary amount of
+;;; literal 31 and 32s.
+;;; -- bem, 2005-08-09