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
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