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[lojban-beginners] Re: Dates
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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