Just testing Wordpress timestamps

Someone asked whether or not you could set the timestamp to something like June 4, 1848. I figured it would depend on whether I can date it in the distant past. Wordpress uses a MySQL datetime field, so in theory it should take any date after January 1, 1000. So here goes…

Update: well, as you can see, it will only go back as far as December 31, 1969. So the historian who wants to create a blog where the posts are dated according to the even being discussed is out of luck.