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Dennis Prazak • Edited

Well, the number of days since 1/1/1 is called the ordinal. See Python's toordinal and fromordinal from datetime. So this is exactly how dates are stored internally in a lot of systems. Although Jesus was born somewhere around 6 to 4 BC, apparently. Which is ironic given BC means Before Christ.