[Date Module] How to save historical dates like 1942, 100 B.C. (Before Christ) or A.D. (Anno Domini), 5 Millionen years ago, etc

By humanoc on 10 Mar 2010 at 10:20 UTC

Hello,

I go on with my database with historical facts but I don't know if it's possible to save dates with these formats:

1942
100 B.C. (Before Christ)
100 A.D. (Anno Domini)
5 Millionen years ago, etc

That's another thing that I'm not sure how to do.

about 1200
after 1300

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance :-)

Comments

humanoc commented 10 March 2010 at 13:38

I think I will create a new content type called: predate with these words: about, after, etc.

For the B.C. and A.D. I don't have any idea, because I think that negative dates can't be used... I need to organize these dates chronologically.

bomarmonk commented 17 January 2012 at 00:00

Check out this thread for some patches and fixes for B.C. dates: http://drupal.org/node/273251

bomarmonk commented 17 January 2012 at 00:01

Check out this thread for some patches and fixes for B.C. dates: http://drupal.org/node/273251