Did you know that Microsoft Excel can't do date calculations before January 1, 1900? True. Hasn't been updated since that's the way it was in the MS-DOS first release and original BASIC days. It doesn't do the logical thing and convert the negative values to absolute values and blah blah blah. It just gives you "##################" cells. Weird.
Anyway to deal with the past you have to shift your earliest date to after 01/01/1900 and shift all your other dates forward accordingly, which can introduce errors because 2000 did have a February 29 leap day but normally centuries do not. If you're striving for precision, you'll have to come up with a C++ program or something.
This came up because last week I had a hunch that turned out to be sort of true. The civil war was as long before World War II as we now are from World War II. Roughly.
Actually, August 4 of 2022 will be (+/- a day?) as long after the attack on Pearl Harbor as the attack on Pearl Harbor was after the firing on Fort Sumter.
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