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 using the datetime module, date, time, and datetime objects all have a min and max attribute.

>>> from datetime import date, time, datetime
>>> date.min
datetime.date(1, 1, 1)
>>> date.max
datetime.date(9999, 12, 31)
>>> time.min
datetime.time(0, 0)
>>> time.max
datetime.time(23, 59, 59, 999999)
>>> datetime.min
datetime.datetime(1, 1, 1, 0, 0)
>>> datetime.max
datetime.datetime(9999, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59, 999999)