Importing data using HDFStore with pre-epoch dates; "ValueError: timestamp out of range for platform localtime()/gmtime() function"
I have data with a DataFrame that goes back to 1949. I imported it from a csv into a hdf5 using HDFStore. That went fine, but when reading from the HDFStore to get a DF back, I get the below stack trace. When looking at the data in the store I see that the index has negative values for preepoch times... 

ValueError: timestamp out of range for platform localtime()/gmtime() function
File "C:\dev\MktDB\test_continuation.py", line 59, in <module>
  main()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pandas-0.3.0-py2.7-win32.egg\pandas\io\pytables.py", line 157, in _read_group
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pandas-0.3.0-py2.7-win32.egg\pandas\io\pytables.py", line 173, in _read_frame
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pandas-0.3.0-py2.7-win32.egg\pandas\io\pytables.py", line 210, in _read_index
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pandas-0.3.0-py2.7-win32.egg\pandas\io\pytables.py", line 227, in _unconvert_index
File "C:\Users\Shon\AppData\Roaming\Python-Eggs\pandas-0.3.0-py2.7-win32.egg-tmp\pandas\lib\tseries.pyd", line 45, in tseries.array_to_datetime (pandas\lib\src\tseries.c:14378)
File "C:\Users\Shon\AppData\Roaming\Python-Eggs\pandas-0.3.0-py2.7-win32.egg-tmp\pandas\lib\tseries.pyd", line 20, in tseries.to_datetime (pandas\lib\src\tseries.c:13910)

Any guidance would be most appreciated. 
Shon
