Jc3s5h added a comment. xsd:dateTime reiterates the necessity of using the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar cannot possibly exist before the Earth, and Wikidata has a need to express dates that occurred before the Earth was formed. So either the TimeValue data type must be redefined to limit values to those that fall within the range of validity of the Gregorian calendar (the exact limits are not obvious) and a different data type created for dates in the far distant past or future, or we should stop naming or implying any external standard and acknowledge its something we made up ourselves, unrelated to ISO or the World Wide Web Consortium. It is not honest to knowingly ascribe to others statements that we know they did not make, such as the possibility of expressing the age of the universe in a notation that conforms to an ISO or W3C standard.
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