whit537/aspen — pull request #118 by ArmstrongJ (2012-11-26 13:17:53+00:00)
Title: Changed timestamp on THE_PAST to allow aspen to start in Windows.

Aspen fails to start on Windows because of the definition of THE_PAST in website.py. The issue stems from the system-dependence of time.mktime, which will throw an OverflowError if a date is not supported by the underlying system. The date used in aspen causes the error on Windows. I changed it to the beginning of the current epoch, which seems to be supported on Windows. Let me know if I'm misunderstanding anything about this variable.