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@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ Deprecations
 
 Bug fixes
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+- Ensure times after 2262 are correctly decoded and don't silently overflow. By `Zeb Nicholls <https://github.com/znicholls>`_.
 - Added support for `numpy.bool_` attributes in roundtrips using `h5netcdf` engine with `invalid_netcdf=True` [which casts `bool`s to `numpy.bool_`] (:issue:`4981`, :pull:`4986`).
   By `Victor Negîrneac <https://github.com/caenrigen>`_.
 - Don't allow passing ``axis`` to :py:meth:`Dataset.reduce` methods (:issue:`3510`, :pull:`4940`).