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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] General tags or VERY specific tags?
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:33:07 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030102100514.02194498@pop3.citlink.net>


Paul E. Lawrence wrote:
>You're right, it has come up before and has been discussed at length.
>Seems that the tmgers interpret "after 1975" to be anytime in starting
>with Jan. 1, 1975 and after, whereas us UFTers were used to "after 1975"
>meaning anytime after Dec. 31, 1975. It won't be changed and I've learned
>to live with it.....<g>

The best way to learn the sort sequence of dates is to make a number of
tags with the same date but using the different modifiers for all except
one tag. For example, three tag using the same date using before, after
and the exact date will be like this:
Before 1 Jan 1800
After 1 Jan 1800
1 Jan 1800

The last two may look odd until you consider that 1 Jan 1800 had 24 hours
in it and the last two entries _could_ be in the right order or _could_ be
reversed. Until and unless we find added information about the "after"
tag, we just have to realize that 'after' means one second after midnight
31 Dec 1799. This is essentially the same as UFT but it just looks different.


Lee Hoffman/KY
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