daniel added a comment. @Smalyshev I only see one potential use case for precise dates in the distant past: astronomical events. But it seems unlikely we'll ever have items about individual eclipses or conjugations of planets in the far past.
@Jc3s5h The ISO date would be used as the "normalized" value, intended for indexing/searching. Even if it does not quite work for distant dates, it should do the trick in almost all use cases we currently have. The only alternative I see would be to use an integer to represent the time, e.g. a 64 bit unix epoch, that would be good for a range of half a trillion years. But it would make it hard to compare these values with dates from other sources. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117031 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: daniel Cc: Jc3s5h, aude, daniel, Aklapper, Smalyshev, jkroll, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, Deskana, Manybubbles _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
