The first two complete editions of De temporibus anni, by Thomas Wright in Popular Treatises on Science, and Karl Bouterwek in Screadunga, were both unsatisfactory in their use of the manuscript material. Wright relied on London, BL, Cotton Tiberius B. v (hereafter referred to as B) as the basis for his edition, and provided a translation which must have sounded archaic even to readers of his day. How little he understood the work can be seen from his introduction:

In fact, the prologue is not as explicit as Wright suggests and, as he himself observed, the heading Ædthelardus De Compoto in one manuscript is clearly a much later addition. In his defence it may be pointed out that, as the title of his book indicates, he was primarily interested in the work's significance for what it reveals of medieval scientific learning, rather than for its literary context.

Bouterwek's edition was in some ways an advance on Wright’s. He used the text from G, omitting the introductory sentence, and included variant readings from B. Like Wright, he emphasised Ælfric's debt to Bede, but was more agnostic about the specific work which lay behind DTA. Since Bouterwek's aim in Screadunga was simply to bring to scholarly attention Anglo-Saxon texts which had not previously been edited, he made no attempt to provide a detailed introduction to the work.

For many years, the standard edition was that of Oswald Cockayne in the third volume of his Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England.