What is the oldest time that can be represented in Python?

Question

I have written a function comp(time1, time2) which will return True when time1 is less than time2. I have a scenario where

Answer 1

If you're using standard issue unix timestamp values then the earliest representable moment of time is back in 1970:

>>> import time
>>> time.gmtime(0)
(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 1, 0)