Best jQuery Date Plugin for Dates of Extreme Difference (1000+ BC - Today)

Question

I'm working on a project right now that requires great flexibility on the date-selector. Users may insert dates several thousands of years ago, as well as dates all the way up to today. Typical date-selectors are great for selecting dates within a few years from eachother, but not too well when it comes to selecting dates of vast differences.

Has anybody seen a plugin that would handle this requirement easier? Perhaps old-fashion hand-entry will be required here.

Answer 1

after doing some usability research for an application to manage a kindergarden involving a lot of date entries, what works best for my users was the masked plugin, where the input textfield has __/__/____ . I used this excellent Masked Input plugin. If you only need to enter the year, then simply set a 4 digit pattern.