Use case or problem
BCE/BC dates are not currently supported.
Proposed solution
Add support for BCE dates with a minus sign in front of the year (e.g. -0100-01-01) following the ISO 8601 standard.
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Iām sure this is pretty niche, but I think it would be really easy to implement and beneficial for people working with historical topics (for which, by the way, Obsidian + Bases will probably be a game-changer soon imo).
It seems like it would also be useful to have a circa ( ~ ) date format as well as date range features.
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Steps to reproduce
Create a metadata field in a note and write a date in it.
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Yes
Expected result
-2026-01-01 should be recognised as date.
Actual result
The value is interpreted as string
Environment
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