: I see, is the leading - char just ignored then? i'd have to re-look at the tests/docs (i don't really want to repeat that agonizing headache right now), but i believe what you are seeing is a compound problem...
* parsing sees the -0001 and recognizes that as a negative year. * somewhere the negative year is dealt with in a way that assumes there is (isn't?) a year 0, making "-1" => "Year 2 BC" * formatting code doesn't include the era in the output and doesn't zero pad propertly so you just get "2" in the response. -Hoss
