On Mon, August 9, 2010 02:19, Ben Schwarz wrote: > While creating an input that works for every use case you can think of > sounds like a good idea, I'd like to question weather a user would ever > *enter > a date* that would require the inclusion of BC/AD. > > I'm certain that there is a requirement to markup such text, but as for * > entry* I'm strongly of the opinion that you're over cooking this.
It took only seconds to find: http://www.guernsey.net/~sgibbs/roman.html which requires (for some dates) entry of 1, 2, and 3-figure and BC years. Likewise: http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html "Please enter a year after A.D. 325" Consider also a site allowing a search of an archive of archaeological finds by year of origin. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk