I have a, possibly not so unusual problem, with dates. The standard MySQL datatime accounts for all dates starting between the year 0000 and 9999 inclusive.
The problem I'm having is that I have a client who wants to build a database for an art-history collection. We'd like to be able to date works and artists so that we can do comparisons by range and find differences between the current date and their birthdate/creationdate etc. The problem is, there's currently no way to specify BCE (Before Common Era - The politically correct BC) and it gets tricky to do math with those dates if you just add an extra isBCE field and specify the date as normal format along the negative scale. I'm just wondering if any developers have thought about creating a datetime field that could handle BCE dates and if the date match functions could be updated to support those. I know that for historical applications, this could make MySQL the only viable solution for a database engine. Peter __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
