How can I get date archives to display on one page?

I’ve been messing around with query_posts but no luck.

I’d basically like to have all the date archives totally unpaginated, so pulling up “March” or “2009” or one specific day will pull up exactly that.

I’ve tried putting

query_posts('showposts=-1');

into date.php but for some reason it shows every single post ever made. Is there a way to limit it to the time periods that have been requested?

Thanks.