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From: "Richard Damon" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Old Style date entry
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:40:28 -0400
In-Reply-To: <00f801c25417$7a47ebf0$a5f0fea9@NEWCLIFF>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cliff & Lynn Watts [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 9:32 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TMG] Old Style date entry
>
>
> 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
>

Actually any Julian Date in Jan to Mar could (and probably should) use the
split year feature to get them to sort correctly with other dates in the
same year. I set the OS date entry to 100 for that reason (I would set it
lower if I could).

Richard Damon
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