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[edward potter]

It's great working with the Intelligent Design people, you don't have
to worry about dates before 6000 BC.  What a relief.   Save all those
zeros.

:-)  ed

On 12/7/06, Kenneth Downs <ken at secdat.com> wrote:
> tedd wrote:
> > 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
> One of Joe Celko's books gives  a pretty thorough run-down of the
> variations that have to be accommodated, including such things as the
> days that happened more than once and the days that never happened, and
> so forth.
>
> Compared to what's happened in AD-land, the BC stuff is easy :)
>
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