Genesis Creation Days as a Millennial Week. Days as long ages in the Fathers. Augustine, Origen,

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Saint Barnabas. Apostle and Martyr. Epistle of Barnabas, Ch 15. c. 90. A.D.
The Sabbath is mentioned at the beginning of the creation: "And God made in six days the works of His hands, and made an end on the seventh day, and rested on it, and sanctified it." (Gen 2:2-3) Attend, my children, to the meaning of this expression, "He finished in six days." This implieth that the Lord will finish all things in six thousand years, for a day is with Him a thousand years. And He Himself testifieth, saying, "Behold, to-day will be as a thousand years." (Ps 89:4, 2 Pet 3:8) Therefore, my children, in six days, that is, in six thousand years, all things will be finished.

Saint Irenaeus of Lyon, Bishop, Martyr, and Theologian. Against Heresies. Book V, Ch. 28, c. 180.A.D.
For in as many days as this world was made, in so many thousand years shall it be concluded. And for this reason the Scripture says: "Thus the heaven and the earth were finished, and all their adornment. And God brought to a conclusion upon the sixth day the works that He had made; and God rested upon the seventh day from all His works." (Gen. 2:1-2) This is an account of the things formerly created, as also it is a prophecy of what is to come. For the day of the Lord is as a thousand years; and in six days created things were completed: it is evident, therefore, that they will come to an end at the sixth thousand year.

Saint Irenaeus of Lyon, Bishop, Martyr, and Theologian. Against Heresies. Book V, Ch. 23. c. 180.A.D.
And there are some, again, who relegate the death of Adam to the thousandth year; for since “a day of the Lord is as a thousand years” (Ps 89:4, 2 Pet 3:8) he did not overstep the thousand years, but died within them, thus bearing out the sentence of his sin. … whether with respect to one and the same day on which they ate they also died (for it is one day of the creation); ...

Saint Hippolytus of Rome. Martyr. Fragment II On Daniel. Pr. 4. c. 200. A.D.
For as the times are noted from the foundation of the world, and reckoned from Adam, they set clearly before us the matter with which our inquiry deals. For the first appearance of our Lord in the flesh took place in Bethlehem, under Augustus, in the year 5,500 : and He suffered in the thirty-third year. And 6,000 years must needs be accomplished, in order that the Sabbath may come, the rest, the holy day “on which God rested from all His works.” (Ex 20:11) For the Sabbath is the type and emblem of the future kingdom of the saints, when they “shall reign with Christ,” (Apoc. 20:4) when He comes from heaven, as John says in his Apocalypse : for “A day with the Lord is as a thousand years.” (Ps 89:4, 2 Pet 3:8) Since, then, in six days God made all things, it follows that 6,000 years must be fulfilled. And they are not yet fulfilled, as John says : “five are fallen ; one is” that is the sixth ; “the other is not yet come.” (Apoc. 17:10)

Saint Cyprian of Carthage, Bishop and Martyr. Treatise XI, Ch. 11. c. 252. What, indeed, do we find in the Maccabees … Seven brethren were thus associating in martyrdom. As the first seven days in the divine arrangement containing seven thousand of years, … Saint Victorinus of Pettau, Bishop and Martyr. On The Creation of The World. c. 280. God produced that entire mass for the adornment of His majesty in six days; … In the beginning God made the light, and divided it in the exact measure of twelve hours by day and by night, … Either or can be both and.

Saint Victorinus of Pettau, Bishop and Martyr. On The Creation of The World. c. 280.
... that true and just Sabbath should be observed in the seventh millenary of years. Wherefore to those seven days, the Lord attributed to each a thousand years; for thus went the warning: “In Your eyes, O Lord, a thousand years are as one day.” (Ps 89:4a, 3:8 ) Therefore in the eyes of the Lord each thousand of years is ordained, for I find that the Lord's eyes are seven. (Zech 4:10) Wherefore, as I have narrated, that true Sabbath will be in the seventh millenary of years, when Christ with His elect shall reign. And thus in the sixth Psalm for the eighth day, David asks the Lord that He would not rebuke him in His anger, nor judge him in His fury (Ps 6:2); for this is indeed the eighth day of that future judgment, which will pass beyond the order of the sevenfold arrangement.

Eusebius of Caesarea says that the date of Creation is 5199 B.C.
7th day would be from 801 A.D. to 1801 A.D.

The most common date given for Creation was 5500 B.C.
7th day would be from around 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D.

Clement of Alexandria says that the date of Creation is 5592 B.C.
7th day would be from 408 A.D. TO 1408 A.D.