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date: reallow negative timestamp, fix for Windows buggy gmtime() (issue2513)

DVCS are very useful to store various texts (as legislation) written before
Unix epoch. Fri, 13 Dec 1901 is a nice gain over Thu, 01 Jan 1970.
Revert dd24f3e7ca9e and e1002cf9fe54, fix c208dcd0f709. Add tests.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import errno, os, sys

for f in sys.argv[1:]:
    try:
        print f, '->', os.readlink(f)
    except OSError as err:
        if err.errno != errno.EINVAL:
            raise
        print f, 'not a symlink'

sys.exit(0)