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From: "Gordon Banks" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] General tags or VERY specific tags?
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:23:49 -0800
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030102142707.0ce401b0@mail.whollygenes.com>


I agree. Problem is when you import data you will find that most people
don't specify "After" a certain precise date, but just 1943 or Aug 1943. I
change that data when I find it. That sort of thing is easily cleaned up
with a utility such as John Cardinal's, so I don't think the logic to handle
that should be in the program, since it would slow it down considerably
making all those sorting decisions.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Velke [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:38 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] General tags or VERY specific tags?


Gordon said:

>The place where the sorting seems to cause illogic is when you know the
>death date, and where the person was buried, but don't know the exact day
of
>the burial. If you just enter a year or month, it sorts to BEFORE the
death
>date.

If you know an exact death date, then why would you be less precise about
the earliest possible date on which he could have been buried? _That_ is
the only time when sorting becomes debatable. That is my point.

(Setting aside the joke that he was buried on 8 Sep 1942 and died very
shortly thereafter <g>).

-Bob


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