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[nycphp-talk] BC Date Recording

tedd tedd at sperling.com
Thu Dec 7 11:45:10 EST 2006


On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:06:27AM -0500, Phil Duffy wrote:
>  I understand that MySQL does not have the ability to store B.C. dates, but
>  that PostgreSQL does.

Considering the history of calendars, I wonder how they did that?

It's one thing to estimate that 2000 years ago was 0006 -- but, it's 
a completely different thing to claim that 2000 years ago today was 
December 7, 0006.

Cheers,

tedd
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