I'm processing an IMAP mailbox and running into trouble parsing the dates using the mxDateTime package. In particular, early dates like "Fri, 1 Jan 1904 00:43:25 -0400" is causing trouble:

>>> import mx.DateTime
>>> import mx.DateTime.ARPA
>>> mx.DateTime.ARPA.ParseDateTimeUTC("Fri, 1 Jan 1904 00:43:25 -0400").gmtoffset()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
Error: cannot convert value to a time value
>>> mx.DateTime.ARPA.ParseDateTimeUTC("Thu, 1 Jan 2009 00:43:25 -0400").gmtoffset()
<mx.DateTime.DateTimeDelta object for '-08:00:00.00' at 1497b60>
>>> 

Note that an almost identical date from 2009 works fine. I can't find any description of date limitations in mxDateTime itself. Any ideas why this might be?

Thx,

Ramon