I want to make a weblog that has with every date 1 or more weblog posts, e.g.:
Januari 24 Year 41 : Roman Emperor Caligula was murdered by Cassius Chaerea and the disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Caligula’s uncle Claudius was proclaimed emperor in his place.
or
Januari 1 Year 153 BC : Roman consuls begin their year in office.
or
Februari 1 Year 2038 : Humans survived
What would be the best way to do this in WordPress if I want to support URL hacking?
p.s. custom fields + custom posts + custom taxonomy was the first thing I thought of but maybe there are better alternatives relying on the current date system.
related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Representing_the_number
Unix time is defined as the amount of seconds since the “Unix epoch,” which is 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970.
It works both forwards and backwards — so technically you shouldn’t have trouble representing dates all the way back to Jan. 1, year 1, but the numbers would be negative and extremely large.
EDIT: PHP appears not to be able to handle those dates easily, at least according to one basic test. Both echo $time = strtotime("January 1, 1"); and echo $time = strtotime("January 1, 0001"); result in 978325200.
I think the best option is, as you muse, categories. Whether or not you want to deal with custom categories might be a matter of preference, but I suspect normal categories with the names you lay out would work just fine.
