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handling BC dates in Ruby on Rails

Hello,

I'm planning to make an application that needs to store dates way before 1970. Maybe even BC dates. Do you think I should store and handle that manually or can I use the Date/Time classes in Rails or use some plugin?

Thanks,

Tam

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1970 won't present a problem, nor will BC.

>> Date.today - 3000.years
=> Mon, 27 Dec -0991

Is there something more specific that you're trying to do?

jdl  2009-12-18 08:43:26
Thanks...thought that it wouldn't be stored in MySql but it did :)
Tam  2009-12-22 05:56:17

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