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  Re: How to represent dates BC Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> - 2012-07-24 12:29 +0200

#25976 — Re: How to represent dates BC

Am 24.07.2012 11:55, schrieb Laszlo Nagy:
> What is the good representation here? Should I implement my own date
> type? (I wouldn't want to.)

JDN [1] is a commonly used format for wide ranges of dates. I've used it
in the past to refer to days BC. PyPI offers a Python module [2] that
looks well written and documented.

HTH,
Christian

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Day_Number
[2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jdcal/1.0

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