From kd5bjo@yahoo.com Thu Jun 26 09:33:50 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:37:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40402.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.78.99]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19VZgz-0003Pf-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:33:49 -0700 Message-ID: <20030626163319.27853.qmail@web40402.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [4.64.83.112] by web40402.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:33:19 PDT Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:33:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Sumner Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Dates To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org In-Reply-To: <20030626001414.GE31328@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 393 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: kd5bjo@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > To wit: *always* use four digits for the year. Always always > always. There is a problem with that method: Do we need to say the year 23 AD as 0023? How does one state the year 37492 AD as four digits? Also, how do you specify the reference point for a year? For example, in _Brave_New_World_ the era is AF (After Ford) rather than AD or BC. How would one specify this sort of thing? I realize that these situations do not come up often, but they need to be expressable in the same way as all other dates, possibly in a more expanded form. -- .eric. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com