Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:45:59 -0700
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Dates
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:33:19AM -0700, Eric Sumner wrote:
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> 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? 

Is that a problem?  If it is, spell it out:

li reci poi nanca cu detri

> How does one state the year 37492 AD as four digits?  

Sorry, "four or more".  Yeesh.

> 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?

In Brave New World, AF is the standard dating scheme, so it would in
fact *not* need to be specified.

If you do need to make it clear, that's what the x4 of detri is for.


> I realize that these situations do not come up often, but they
> need to be expressable in the same way as all other dates,

Why?

-Robin

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