Data warehouse for AD dates
We're creating a historic archive for a world history database and we need a date lookup table which references all dates in AD. How to go about creating the values for this table - from 1AD to 2011 as YYYY/MM/DD? Database is MySQL. Problems: I'm using Excel to pre-populate the dates, then import into MySQL as: YYYY/MM/DD but Excel doesn't recognize years like 0007, 0008, etc so I can't auto-copy cells to generate dates. I have to manually do it and this will take days to go from 1AD to year 2011 as YYYY/MM/DD. Leap years were introduced on 1752. If I programmatically generates dates how do I