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KIP-228 — Negative record timestamp support

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Allows negative timestamps in Kafka records (representing dates before Unix epoch 1970-01-01) by removing the current validation that rejects records with timestamp < 0. Kafka is increasingly used to store historical data including pre-1970 events, but negative timestamps were unconditionally rejected, forcing workarounds like timestamp offsets.

Details

AuthorKonstantin Chukhlomin
StatusDiscussion
JIRAKAFKA-6048
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Created2017-11-28
Last Modified2018-08-17
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