DateTime, the year 0, and ISO8601

[Peter J. Acklam]

Why no year 0 in DateTime?  I was surprised to see the following
in the synopsis:

    $year   = $dt->year;          # there is no year 0

The ISO8601 range is [0000,9999], thus including year 0.  The
standard even explicitly mentions that year 0 was a leap year.

Peter

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