It would be sooooooooo.... nice if they did. Every time this happens
to me, it kills postgres, because the negative dates corrupt the
pg_control file. Luckily I have a spare, uncorrupted one lying around
for just such an occasion, but man, the first time it happened I was
freaking out. Also sendmail refuses to work. Since I'm only stupid
enough to do this about once every three months, I've forgotten that
it will happen, and I get really irritated because sendmail is
broken.... and then I remember.
jas.