I used a base year of 2000 in my compact date formats, one because it allows hundreds of thousands of years, and the other because years closer to zero can be s

I used a base year of 2000 in my compact date formats, one because it allows hundreds of thousands of years, and the other because years closer to zero can be stored in less bits: https://github.com/kstenerud/smalltime https://github.com/kstenerud/smalltime https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-time https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-time