Examples are: June 15, 1993 (dates), 397 years after the discovering of America. The notion of chronologically definite temporal qualification is different from the notion of absolute time. Consider the case of temporal qualifications relating the occurrence time of an event to the occurrence time of another event rather than to the current (implicit) time now. Even if they can be considered relative times, they are chronologically definite. They specify an absolute temporal position which may possibly be unknown (it depends on common sense as well as context knowledge). Examples of statements including these kinds of chronologically definite temporal qualifications are: ``the French revolution occurred 397 years after the discovering of America,'' ``Mary's salary was raised before Lucy's.''