Rollup merge of #148825 - cvengler:time_systemtime_limits, r=ChrisDenton

Add SystemTime::{MIN, MAX}

Accepted ACP: <https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/692>
Tracking Issue: <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/149067>

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This merge request introduces two new constants to `SystemTime`: `MIN` and `MAX`, whose values represent the maximum values for the respective data type, depending upon the platform.

Technically, this value is already obtainable during runtime with the following algorithm:
Use `SystemTime::UNIX_EPOCH` and call `checked_add` (or `checked_sub`) repeatedly with `Duration::new(0, 1)` on it, until it returns None.
Mathematically speaking, this algorithm will terminate after a finite amount of steps, yet it is impractical to run it, as it takes practically forever.

Besides, this commit also adds a unit test to verify those values represent the respective minimum and maximum, by letting a `checked_add` and `checked_sub` on it fail.

In the future, the hope of the authors lies within the creation of a `SystemTime::saturating_add` and `SystemTime::saturating_sub`, similar to the functions already present in `std::time::Duration`.
However, for those, these constants are crucially required, thereby this should be seen as the initial step towards this direction.
With this change, implementing these functions oneself outside the standard library becomes feasible in a portable manner for the first time.

This feature (and a related saturating version of `checked_{add, sub}` has been requested multiple times over the course of the past few years, most notably:
* rust-lang/rust#100141
* rust-lang/rust#133525
* rust-lang/rust#105762
* rust-lang/rust#71224
* rust-lang/rust#45448
* rust-lang/rust#52555
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