It is like a new calendar - not solar, lunar, Julian or Gregorian -
the Computer era calendar.
OK - let's be negative with gusto!
David IB
At 22:58 09/11/2009, Tyndale STEP Project wrote:
>Hi guys
>
>Just to let you know that we may not be able to store dates as dates
>in our database... They are so far back in the past that a lot of
>databases won't support them as such. In order to maintiaini their
>chronological order, it may be worth storing their epoch time (time
>since 1970, which in our case is going to be very negative!)
>
>The one we were probably going to settle for was Apache Derby. I've
>posted on HSQLDB, although mainly for interest as I seem to remember
>upon investigation that it's single threaded and therefore wouldn't
>support our web architecture...
>
>Chris
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