Hi! I have the same problem in one of my projects. I used 2 fields for it. One is standart DateField and another is BooleanField. If the second is True I suppose the date is BC. This aprouch is very simply and work with all Django supported databases.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:52 AM, 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<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- Alex Kamedov skype: kamedov www: kamedov.ru -- 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.
