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Use a more vague range as it's informational
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robUx4 committed Oct 30, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ A UTF-8 Element contains only a valid Unicode string as defined in [@!RFC3629],
A Date Element **MUST** declare a length of either zero octets or eight octets. If the EBML Element is not defined to have a default value, then a Date Element with a zero-octet length represents a timestamp of 2001-01-01T00:00:00.000000000 UTC [@!RFC3339].

The Date Element stores an integer in the same format as the Signed Integer Element that expresses a point in time referenced in nanoseconds from the precise beginning of the third millennium of the Gregorian Calendar in Coordinated Universal Time (also known as 2001-01-01T00:00:00.000000000 UTC).
This provides a possible expression of time from 1708-09-22T00:12:43.145224192 UTC to 2293-04-11T23:47:16.854775807 UTC.
This provides a possible expression of time from September 1708 to April 2293.

The integer stored represents the number of nanoseconds between the date to express and 2001-01-01T00:00:00.000000000 UTC, not counting leap seconds.
That is 86,400,000,000,000 nanoseconds for each day. Conversions from other date systems should ensure leap seconds are not counted in EBML values.
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