Thanks for that, Otto. I can see your areas of need. If all the language were converted to one GEDCOM language for months and abbreviations and restored to the desired language from GEDCOM on the other end that would probably make a big difference. I was thinking if your number system allowed zeroes to be converted to underscores you could enter 23 April of an unknown year as 23040000 or April 1806 as 00041806. Another possibility might be to use 99031848 to be converted to registration date of (3) 1848 with the first four numbers starting 9901 going to (1), 9902 going to (2), 9903 going to (3), and 9904 going to (4) if this system was going to be regarded as universally acceptable for quarters of the year. Hoping that a later GEDCOM version may be able to cope with things like that. Just a thought. Andrew Jackett of New Zealand. -----Original Message----- From: Otto Jørgensenvia Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 12:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BK] How do I write month and year only? Nowdateentry generally. On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:38:38 +1200, "Andrew Jackett" <[email protected]> wrote: >To John Gilliver, > >There are two settings you can have in BK for dates. With one you can >allow >your input to be in a series of numbers or underscores and what you say is >correct for that. It has to be in that format or it gets confused. The >other option is to use your own formatting and then just a year on its own >is OK. Year on its own is fine e.g. 1948 (or 197_ this meaning some year >in >the 1970's). You can also record for instance wedding anniversaries >without >the year stated by entering 6-Mar-____ for the 6th of March in an unknown >year so the system is quite flexible. > the drawback is that if we use the standard form that gives us 17 mai 1814 and it is correct accoring to that, but the coverting to gedcom does not convert 17 mai 1814 to 17 may 1814 But if we use figures 170151814 that is OK, but then we have to convert the month of the date separately (wjat ever language) allso the abbr. as AFT BEF we ad before date isnot coverted to the word use is the language. Her we should hav BEF 17 may 1814 converted to før 17 mai 1814 -- Otto Jørgensen http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/ All email is checked by NIS2014 Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Oops. My thinking was clouded. The use of zeroes instead of underscore characters was out. They have quite separate meanings in BK. Maybe CIR, ABT, BEF, AFT etc. and the numbers and the underscore character as well could all be acceptable input for working with the quick date display set of characters. I said last time: "I was thinking if your number system allowed zeroes to be converted to underscores you could enter 23 April of an unknown year as 23040000 or April 1806 as 00041806." What I should've said was instead of 23040000 for 23 April of an unknown year use 2304____ and instead of 00041806 for April 1806 use __041806 Andrew Jackett of New Zealand. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Jackett via Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 9:35 AM To: Otto Jørgensen ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [BK] How do I write month and year only? Nowdateentry generally.