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From: Polly Held <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Wish List - Date Calculator
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:41:07 -0500
References: <025401c6fe94$30ecfb90$6501a8c0@HP>
In-Reply-To: <025401c6fe94$30ecfb90$6501a8c0@HP>


I agree with Robert. I have put forth a "wish list" item for this
function for the date calculator (the option to enter any two of three
operators -- beginning date; ending date; age in years, days and months
-- to get the third) on a few occasions but it seems that I was the only
one who was interested in it. Maybe the developers might think about it
for the next update or new version.
Polly Held


Robert Thorpe wrote:

>Terry Reigel wrote:
>
>
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>>The date is in whatever order you specify for dates in Preferences.
>>Why would you want it to be different than what you have
>>specified for the rest of the program?
>>
>>
>
>Perhaps I said this wrong. The dates themselves are just fine. It is the
>order of the "Elapsed time fields; days, months, years". They almost
>never occur in that order when printed. I never saw a grave marker that
>said "Aged 3 days, 11 months and 57 years". I have only seen the age the
>other way around. And because of that, that's how I want to enter it
>into the calculator. Every time I have used it, I put in years, months,
>days and then have received a computed date that is so far off it is
>obviously wrong. What the heck? Then I have to go back and do the whole
>thing again which is really frustrating.
>
>
>
>>You don't have to copy it, as I said in an earlier post.
>>
>>
>
>I wrote my comment about that after the first message arrived and before
>yours did. Point taken.
>
>Bob Velke wrote:
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>>Do you have the Age column turned on in the Person View? It will
>>make the first type of calculation for you automatically.
>>
>>
>
>I didn't know about the Age column but when I went in and turned it on,
>it didn't do the trick. It was only the age in years.
>
>Here is an example of how I used the date calculator in Family Origins
>before I switched to TMG. I was fairly young when my son was born and I
>wanted him to know what it was like having a child at a young age. I
>took his birthday and subtracted mine from it, giving my age at the time
>he was born. Then I took that age and added it to his birthday to
>determine what date he would be the same age as me the day he had been
>born. I called him that morning and told him that if he were me, his son
>would be born that day. I have done this with many calculations; the age
>my dad was when he died compared to my age, etc.
>
>The Date Calculator simply does not yield elapsed time between dates and
>for me, that is how I use a date calculator the most.
>
>Robert Thorpe
>
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