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From: "Laura M. Cooper" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Old Style date entry
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 22:22:55 -0500
References: <5.1.1.6.0.20020902205753.02518b40@mail.attbi.com>
In-Reply-To: <KBEEJNHPFAMCGLNKDFEFCEDAEOAA.rdamon@beltronicsinc.com>


Thanks again, Richard. I had not thought of entering the dates in quotes.
My solution has been to enter my interpretation in the regular date field,
edit the sentence so that the date doesn't print, and use the memo field to
enter the date as written in the record along with an explanatory note.

Laura Cooper

At 11:09 PM 9/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > -----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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