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Support for BC in addition to AD Dates

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Jeremy_Oglesby
14 - Jupiter
14 - Jupiter

I’d like to request support for BC dates, or “negative” years. The Timeline Block is willing to display “negative” years, and I think it would be neat to be able to build a History Timeline in Airtable that could span back into Ancient, BC history. Sadly, the furthest back I can get is a “year 0”.

CleanShot 2020-07-10 at 22.02.55@2x

And even the Date Picker on the Date field is willing to scroll backwards into negative years, but then when a date is selected, it inputs it as the positive inverse year:

CleanShot 2020-07-10 at 22.19.01@2x

CleanShot 2020-07-10 at 22.19.15@2x

I’ve been fiddling with DATETIME_PARSE() formulas and can’t seem to get anything to produce a “negative” year output.

Would love to see support for this, even if the use-cases are rather narrow :slightly_smiling_face:

9 Comments
kuovonne
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

Great product suggestion.

You wouldn’t happen to be homeschooling ancient history, would you?

Jeremy_Oglesby
14 - Jupiter
14 - Jupiter

:slightly_smiling_face: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

mitt_coats
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Did you ever find a solution? I’m looking for same thing

Maia_Nebula
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Can’t agree more!! I really need this function, too. Hope Airtable Team supports your request.

Jeremy_Oglesby
14 - Jupiter
14 - Jupiter

BUMP

I would still like this, @Airtable

ecl
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

I am also looking for this funktion, I hope the airtable team finds an ear for this.

jamesDC
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Would also love to see this functionality added.

Jokos
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Also looking for this function desperately !

Alice222
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Me too, I want to use new release Timeline view to show world history BC..