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Hi Eugene On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 20:45 +0200, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: > Ron Savage schreef: > > > * How does your module record the difference between "2000", "JAN 2000" > > > and "1 JAN 2000"? > > > > How does you code distinguish between these cases? > > It remembers the parts of the date (dmy, or my, or just y) that are > known, and only uses those components. It fabricates the missing day or > month where necessary, but these are never returned to the outside > world. Yes, thanx. I have seen that code. I thought you might have added something else recently. > > Do you one of the GEDCOM concepts About, Calculated, Estimated or > > Interpreted? > > Not at this moment. "1900" is equivalent to "BET 1 JAN 1900 AND 31 DEC > 1900", and "BET 1897 AND 1903" is rougly equivalent to "ABT 1900", but I > haven't (yet) added a method to convert these GEDCOM date strings to > each other. Interesting. It suggests many approximate dates could be reported as a range of dates. More to think about... -- Ron Savage http://savage.net.au/ Ph: 0421 920 622Thread Previous | Thread Next