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    1. Re: [BK] How do I write month and year only? Now dateentry generally.
    2. Otto Jørgensen via
    3. 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

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