[issue14810] Bug in tarfile

2012-05-15 Thread Hans Werner May
Hans Werner May added the comment: "Out of curiosity: where did you get a file that was last modified in 1956?" No idea, this was a jpeg file, probably downloaded from internet. Btw, on Linux you can manipulate the creation date with the touch command, so it is possible to create

[issue14810] Bug in tarfile

2012-05-14 Thread Hans Werner May
New submission from Hans Werner May : Bug in tarfile: In extractall, when a file exists in tarball with changetime older than (I don't know, in my case it was year 1956) tarfile raises an Overflow exception: File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2298, in utime os.u