If the patch works, it might be nice to have an option to explicitly ask for it, but I wouldn't want to assume that "time in the future means infinitely old" by default.
In all, if I had time to look at this, I'd rather spend it on automating a way to force timestamps in badly skewed databases back to sane times.
There's more about this patch on the zodb-dev list:
http:// mail.zope. org/pipermail/ zodb-dev/ 2005-September/ 009248. html
If the patch works, it might be nice to have an option to explicitly ask for it, but I wouldn't want to assume that "time in the future means infinitely old" by default.
In all, if I had time to look at this, I'd rather spend it on automating a way to force timestamps in badly skewed databases back to sane times.