NYCPHP Meetup

[John Lacey]

Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg wrote:

  > There's also the BC math library, which is bundled with PHP, 
but you
> need to emulate bitwise operations in userland code, which doesn't
> seem too efficient.

...pardon the OT switch, but "BC" just reminded me of a question 
a student asked that I hadn't had time to research, and thought 
maybe someone's run into this:

Any "good" ways to handle BCE/CE (BC/AD) dates that are stored 
in MySQL?  A quick check didn't come up with anything in either 
Paul DuBois's MySQL Cookbook or David and Adam's PHP Cookbook.

thx
John