[lojban-beginners] Re: Dates

[Eric Sumner <kd5bjo@yahoo.com>]

--- 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?
 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.

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