[plt-scheme] no prehistoric dates?

From: YC (yinso.chen at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 18 16:22:33 EST 2009

make-date cannot handle negative years, i.e. no BC time.

> (make-date 0 0 0 1 1 -1 0 0 #f 0)
make-date: expected argument of type <nonnegative exact integer>; given
-1

Is there a reason for such restriction?

Thanks,
yc
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