BCE years are encoded with a minus sign. There's no year zero, so -1 is encoded as 0000, -2 as -0001 etc.
Alex Plantema.
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Onderwerp: EAD encoding of BCE dates
How are others encoding BCE dates? ISO standard seems to be vague on it. Would this be right?
<unitdate normal="-2100/-2000" type="inclusive">circa 2100-2000 BCE</unitdate>
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