For example, currently this will crash:

f = Flickr.new('/tmp/flickr-cache', KEY, SECRET)
f.people.getInfo("97644214@N00")



because this user's firstdate is in 1864, and though Parsedate will handle this Time will not, at least not on my system
- ruby 1.8.5



I'm currently working around this by changing base.rb like so:

  if (ParseDate.parsedate(tstr)[0] > 1901)
    p.photos_firstdatetaken = Time.gm(*ParseDate.parsedate(tstr)) if tstr
  end

but there ought to be a better way