touch file date problem

When using 'touch' to reset the date of a file, I just discovered that I
cannot set a date earlier than 1969. What is the reason for that
limitation? and is there any way around it?

touch -t 6907010101 filename <E> works okay ...however,
touch -t 6807010101 filename <E> will not work.




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