<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">I am building an
applicationwhich requires the storage of dates relating to the creation of archaeological items. The problem I am
facingis that although most of the dates are working fine, some of the items were created before the beginning of
recordedhistory (4713 BC). <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have any suggestions for making these
datesplay nicely with items created more recently (January 10<sup>th</sup>, 1968 for example)? My only other
requirementis that I need to be able to execute SQL queries which can find items made before a certain date, after a
certaindate, or between two dates.<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<p class="MsoNormal">Ryan</div>