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From: "Cliff & Lynn Watts" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Old Style date entry
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:32:11 -0400
References: <3D742F4A.B3F1BB02@reigelridge.com> <5.1.1.6.0.20020901235557.01a63f68@mail.attbi.com> <5.1.1.6.0.20020902205753.02518b40@mail.attbi.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020903071819.0286fe90@pop3.norton.antivirus>


Lee Hoffman wrote:

>> Dates are treated by TMG as old style (and thus converted) based on the
Old Style Date Range option under Preferences=>Program Options=>General. If
the date falls out of this range it is not converted. <<

Since this message I haven't seen mention of another OS conversion glitch,
which exists in both 4.0d and 5.03.

Some compendia of early European lines, such as the Weis/Sheppard "Ancestral
Roots" volumes, contain a few OS dates before 1000 AD which should be
recordable as found.

To handle them, I've set the start of OS dating to 0800. When I key in 1
Feb 993/4, I 'm told that the date is irregular and get 1 Feb 0993/4. If I
key in Feb 993/4, I see no irregular warning and get Feb 993./994. as the
result. An input date of 993/4 produces 993./994. without any warning.

Cliff


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