Ben Finney wrote: > If you're committed to changing the epoch anyway, I would recommend > using <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering> > (epoch at 4004 BCE) since it is widely used to unify dates referring to > human history.
I prefer JDN or MJD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDN) for dates long before or after the unix epoch. The conversion from JDN as float to a datetime object is trivial. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list