To your first question, I'm sure there are good reasons for not having zeros in the Date and Time types, but in other languages (i.e., stata), dates and times are stored as integers or floats with respect to some reference time. So, I *think* the 0-date in stata refers to January 1, 1960. Obviously this is fairly arbitrary, but there is some precedence for it in other languages.
On Sunday, November 9, 2014 8:17:04 PM UTC-6, Jacob Quinn wrote: > > What Date would represent zero(::Date)? Or one(::Date), for that matter? > Doesn't seem like a particularly useful definition. What's the use case? > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Thomas Covert <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I'm using Dates.jl on 0.3 and have discovered that there is no zero >> defined for the Date or DateTime types. Is this intentional? >> >> >> >
