In article <mailman.1924.1237149940.11746.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote:
> Not that that date could even be represented by most programs since > it's before 1970. Talk about recentism! :-) > I've always wondered how historians using computers deal with that > limitation... The unix time format it well known for being extremely limited both in terms of extent and precision. Julian Date (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_date) is a commonly used time scale for working with events far into the past or future. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
