From d0544a658155a6026eb6eb7a2ed052131929d17e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Daniels <adaniels@quantopian.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:05:21 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] MAINT: Define default end_date in assets.db as max int64, for
 clarity

---
 zipline/assets/asset_writer.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/zipline/assets/asset_writer.py b/zipline/assets/asset_writer.py
index b2cb38f4..615c9a5c 100644
--- a/zipline/assets/asset_writer.py
+++ b/zipline/assets/asset_writer.py
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ _equities_defaults = {
     'symbol': None,
     'asset_name': None,
     'start_date': 0,
-    'end_date': 2 ** 62 - 1,
+    'end_date': np.iinfo(np.int64).max,
     'first_traded': None,
     'auto_close_date': None,
     # the canonical exchange name, like "NYSE"
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ _futures_defaults = {
     'root_symbol': None,
     'asset_name': None,
     'start_date': 0,
-    'end_date': 2 ** 62 - 1,
+    'end_date': np.iinfo(np.int64).max,
     'first_traded': None,
     'exchange': None,
     'notice_date': None,
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ _equity_supplementary_mappings_defaults = {
     'value': None,
     'field': None,
     'start_date': 0,
-    'end_date': 2 ** 62 - 1,
+    'end_date': np.iinfo(np.int64).max,
 }