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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Date calculator - a big disappointment
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:52:27 -0400
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Darrell Martin wrote:
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> My comments:
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> 1. I agree that the inability to calculate the interval between two dates is a serious, if not *quite* fatal, shortcoming in a date calculator. I have tried several workarounds to no avail.
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I agree that such a calculation would often be useful.

> 2. I also find the order of presentation, "days, months, and years" to be counterproductive. The only justification I can think of is that *dates* are usually presented in that order in TMG. However in my experience, as in yours, burial markers universally present ages in the order: years, months, and days.>

I commented on this several moths ago and AKAIR there was no feedback.
In Ver 4, the order was years, months and days and was changed in Ver 5.

> 3. I have a vague impression that each major upgrade of TMG has resulted in a broken date calculator. I could easily be wrong on that, but it has some indications of a programming approach that is too complex for the task ... but I really don't have enough information to make an educated guess at what is going on behind the scenes.
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I don't think so. Each time a new version has come out someone has
complained and Bob Velke has explained the situation. The fact that the
TMG date calculator may come up with a different end date in subtraction
that the actual date is due to several factors: Ambiguity in how a date
should be and is calculated or errors in the original calculation life
span calculation.

bob gillis

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