[libdb-develop] Dates In An RDBMS - Years Only?

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

For purposes explained below:

  * all dates not related to a person or corporate body are years.
  * all dates related to a person or corporate body must be yyyy-mm-dd.

In MySQL, at least, there's no "proper" way to represent a YYYY or 
YYYY-MM-DD in *one* column: we'd end up with stuff like "1999-00-00", which 
seems rather evil to me (or is it? let me know your thoughts.)


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