<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day has an article on this. The short of it was that the minimum date it was arbitrarily chosen by Joseph Scaliger (the inventor of Julian Dates) back in 1593, so that the it would predate all historical dates at that point. The maximum was a date was a result of that. Eric Cleereman
-----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ADM: Annual are you going to BMC UserWorld qeustionaire available ** In relation to AR System function, is the max B.C. value (1/1/4713 BC) any more or less an arbitrary value than that of the UNIX Epoch (1/1/1970)? I agree that an unlimited value (or a value that was allowed to the same level as A.D. or B.C.) would have been more useful to the 0.01% of Remedy installations used by archaeologists and the like. Would love to hear from someone who knows how the maximum B.C. value was determined, and why. Rick On 10/17/07, Opela, Gary L Contr OC-ALC/ITMA < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think you can get rid of the BC using some text-editing technique (I've seen someone post on the list how to do it), but I do agree it is useless. I've had customers click it thinking it meant Business Continuance for some reason. I would imagine, maybe, if you used remedy to track fossils or something, then the BC field might be used in a date field describing from when the dinosaur came, however, I think that date fields can only go back so far, and doubt they can go back to 40,000,000 yrs ago. Thanks, Gary Opela, Jr Sr. Remedy Developer Leader Communications, Inc. 405 736 3211 -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ADM: Annual are you going to BMC UserWorld qeustionaire available ** I filled out the survey -- Just wondering in general on the date fields -- has anybody ever selected BC for a valid reason? I figure -- ARS has 10,000 sites (not sure/what I have heard -- but guessing). The average site does 100,000 tickets/year -- this I know this as fact. (kidding) So - that is 1,000,000,000 tickets/yr. I would guess - that not one ticket -- has a real use of BC. Can anybody prove me wrong? If that is the case -- anybody think the default should not include BC? PS - the survey did not work on Safari-Mac. I would be willing to donate a Kinetic Survey and Kinetic Request license to the ARSList -- Dan -- hit me up if interested. -John On 10/17/07, Daniel Bloom < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** If you go to www.wwrug.org < http://www.wwrug.org/ <http://www.wwrug.org/> > On the left hand side there is a link to the "Attendance Survey". This gives me an idea of how many will be there and how many pins I should be dragging around to hand out to folks that are there. For any first timers, there is a pin that shows you are a member of the ARSlist. If you see me, I usually have some with me. I will also leave some at any booth of companies that sponsor the list (our new sponsor should be announced at UserWorld. I have a commitment just no check in hand yet). ... Daniel p.s. I have given up trying to have them handed out at the registration desk, it is always more stress than it is worth __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
