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From: "Richard Damon" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Old Style date entry
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 23:09:54 -0400
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020902205753.02518b40@mail.attbi.com>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura M. Cooper [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:54 PM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [TMG] Old Style date entry
>
>
> Richard,
>
> Thanks for your interesting reply.
>
> Frankly, I would prefer that TMG not mess with my dates so that I could
> enter them as they appear in the original documents, or how I
> want them to
> appear. Other than OS dates, I find it particularly frustrating
> that dates
> written, for example, 4. 10. 1677., are automatically converted.
> Though the
> first number is usually the day, I work on the theory that there are
> exceptions to every rule. My preference would be for TMG to convert only
> those dates that have all the elements of the chosen format in whatever
> order, and that all others - regular or irregular - must be
> entered manually.
>
> Laura Cooper,
> Arlington, Texas

One work around is to enter them as "4. 10. 1677" (with the quotes, as an
irregular date) and enter your interpretation as the sort date. I think the
reasoning is that the tag is really your interpretation of the evidence (the
raw evidence would be placed in Citation Details or Memos), and by
regularizing the date the program can compute ages at events for validation.

Richard Damon
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