Thanks. I do need to do some basic date arithmetic, but it doesn't really need to be super accurate. I might be able to get away with this approach.
Thanks for the advice! Best, Ben On Jan 17, 10:52 pm, Christophe Pettus <x...@thebuild.com> wrote: > On Jan 17, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Ben Dembroski wrote: > > > I'm a relative newbie to both Python and Django, and in the middle of > > my first Django project. My client is asking me to store and process > > dates -- including dates BC. > > Unless you have a strong need to do date arithmetic on the dates, or you can > use a different database (like PostgreSQL) that has more robust date support, > it might be easier to represent the dates as stylized strings, or as integers > on a uniform calendar like the proleptic Julian calendar, instead of using > the built-in date type. > > -- > -- Christophe Pettus > x...@thebuild.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
