Comment by tzury

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    I wonder how people store dates older than this. 
    
    Maybe if I’m a British Museum manager, and I want to keep theft inventory details. 
    
    How do I do it? As an epoch? Store it as text?

The answer: Text.

Many items in museums have no specific date but Circa X. I have spent a lot of time in the early 2000s to enable "Sort by date" in museum registrars software I was maintaining despite having it textual