try:

            t = time.mktime(t)

        # Implementation specific: mktime might trigger an OverflowError

        # if the year member is out of range. If this happen, we adjust

        # the setting to a year known to work.

        except OverflowError:

            if t[0] >= 2038:

                t = time.mktime([2038, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0])

            elif t[0] < 1970:

                t = time.mktime([1970, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0])

            else:

                raise OverflowError