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## dates.md

      
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    MySQL has a canonical implementation:
SELECT FROM_DAYS(730669);

+-------------------+
| FROM_DAYS(730669) |
+-------------------+
| 2000-07-03        |
+-------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)


Someone wrote a special javascript script:

getDate2 = function(intval) {
    var val = new(Date);
    val.setFullYear(0,0,intval+1)
    return val
}
    getDate = function(intval) {
      var minDate;
      minDate = new Date();
      minDate.setUTCFullYear(0);
      minDate.setUTCMonth(0);
      minDate.setUTCDate(1);
      minDate.setUTCSeconds(0);
      minDate.setUTCMilliseconds(0);
      minDate.setDate(minDate.getDate() + intval);
      return minDate;
    };


getDate(730669)

//Mon Jul 03 2000 11:52:00 GMT-0400 (EDT)

Python we only use for creating:
from datetime import date, datetime

def DaysSinceZero(dateobj):
    #Zero isn't a date, which python knows but MySQL and javascript don't.
    return (dateobj - date(1,1,1)).days + 366

"""
In [20]: DaysSinceZero(date(2000,07,03))
Out[20]: 730669

"""