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On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, David Nugent wrote:

> > but some consistency in hackery would be nice.  Maybe we should just tell 
> > the world to use hexadecimal years.  Then we would now be in the year
> > 0x7CD, and we would have another 50 years to get organised before we hit 
> > 0x800 :-)
> 
> :-)
> 
> This could get awkward, especially for each ending in "AD" and "BC".

Quite simple really: 33 BC = -0x21

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