From 6ee24fbc9aa463a64575893ddb0b24e0ca263f6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?H=C3=BCseyin=20Erdo=C4=9Fan?= <huseyerd@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2026 22:00:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: extend BCE regex from 5 to 7 digits for paleolithic
 dates

---
 src/regex.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/regex.ts b/src/regex.ts
index f81088e..73441cd 100644
--- a/src/regex.ts
+++ b/src/regex.ts
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ export const edtfEventTextMatchIndex = ++edtfIndex;
  *
  */
 export const BCE_START_REGEX = new RegExp(
-  `^\\s*(\\d{1,5})\\s?(BCE|BC|AD|CE)?(?:\\s?[–-]\\s?(\\d{1,5})\\s?(BCE|BC|AD|CE)?)?(?=\\s*:)(.*)`,
+  `^\\s*(\\d{1,7})\\s?(BCE|BC|AD|CE)?(?:\\s?[–-]\\s?(\\d{1,7})\\s?(BCE|BC|AD|CE)?)?(?=\\s*:)(.*)`,
   "i"
 );
 let BCEIndex = -1;