In message <[email protected]>, R L Brown via <[email protected]> writes: >My default BK date format is Jun-24-1954.  My method of entry is >6/24/1954, then TAB, which BK then converts to the desired format.  >This is a very easy and efficient method. I have my dates in 24-Jun-1954 format; I would enter 24061954, which BK would convert into 24-Jun-1954. Actually, I'd enter 240654; for dates within a certain range corresponding to most of the 20th century, you only need a two-digit year. (I think you can change the endpoints somewhere.) I have found certain anomalies - see below. If I know only the month and year, I enter the numerical month, slash, two spaces, slash, 4-digit year, then TAB.  For example, 6/  /1954, then TAB.  BK will then convert that to the standard format Jun-  -1954.  The I would enter that as __061954 (then tab). (I've found the six-character version less tolerant - I think - of incomplete dates; I _think_ I could enter that as __0654, but there are certainly combinations the six-character form won't decode but the eight-character one will.) [] From: Andrew Jackett via <[email protected]> [] I enter my dates into BK7 databases using Type 7 (from the manual) i.e. 15-JUN-1954 with European date input. (I have the similar one but with only the first letter of the month capitalized.) The entering of most dates is self-explanatory, but I’m not sure how to enter an incomplete date when only month and year are known... Do I enter as ?-JUN-1954 or as __-JUN-1954 or as JUN-1954 ? The middle one certainly works, though __061954 - which will get converted into your chosen format - is easier. ...and what about dates to indicate 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th quarters of a registration year? ... Do I enter as (2) 1954 or as (2)-1954 to indicate registered in Apr-May-Jun of 1954 ? There has been a discussion of this - I forget whether it was here or on soc.genealogy.britain; I think it was here - in the last few months. The conclusion was, unfortunately, that BK doesn't _have_ a way of indicating quarters. Yes, I think it was here, because we then had a discussion on how people choose to record such dates. I put "Q2" into the event note; others have different means. Unfortunately this is one case where the wildcard _doesn't_ work; you'd think, for fourth quarter (months 10, 11, and 12), that __1_1954 would work, but BK interprets that as January. As each of these options gets a notice marked in red as ‘Invalid date’ I am none the wiser as to which is the preferred method of expression in BK.  Does it matter? We've also had a discussion of that. Unfortunately, BK indicates both a wrongly-formatted date and an incomplete one (one with _s in it) in red as "Invalid", at the point of entry. If it has converted what you entered into your preferred format (and correctly), then it is OK and BK will use it for calculations if it can. Thank you for reading this.  Please help me someone. I hope we have a bit. Andrew Jackett of New Zealand. [email protected] 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 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 (It's best to remove that text from any post, as it will be added again.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "How many noble trees have given their lives to become bibles? How many have died to become korans? It's not their fault. It's not the fault of the trees." - Jason Woodrue

On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:07:21 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John) via" <[email protected]> wrote: >In message ><[email protected]>, R L >Brown via <[email protected]> writes: >>My default BK date format is Jun-24-1954.  My method of entry is >>6/24/1954, then TAB, which BK then converts to the desired format.  >>This is a very easy and efficient method. > >I have my dates in 24-Jun-1954 format; I would enter 24061954, which BK >would convert into 24-Jun-1954. Actually, I'd enter 240654; for dates >within a certain range corresponding to most of the 20th century, you >only need a two-digit year. (I think you can change the endpoints >somewhere.) I have found certain anomalies - see below. > >If I know only the month and year, I enter the numerical month, slash, >two spaces, slash, 4-digit year, then TAB.  For example, 6/  /1954, >then TAB.  BK will then convert that to the standard format Jun-  >-1954.  The > >I would enter that as __061954 (then tab). (I've found the six-character >version less tolerant - I think - of incomplete dates; I _think_ I could >enter that as __0654, but there are certainly combinations the >six-character form won't decode but the eight-character one will.) >[] > From: Andrew Jackett via <[email protected]> > >[] >I enter my dates into BK7 databases using Type 7 (from the manual) i.e. >15-JUN-1954 with European date input. > >(I have the similar one but with only the first letter of the month >capitalized.) > >The entering of most dates is self-explanatory, but I’m not sure how >to enter an incomplete date when only month and year are known... > >Do I enter as ?-JUN-1954 or as __-JUN-1954 or as JUN-1954 ? > >The middle one certainly works, though __061954 - which will get >converted into your chosen format - is easier. > >...and what about dates to indicate 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th quarters of a >registration year? ... > >Do I enter as (2) 1954 or as (2)-1954 to indicate registered in >Apr-May-Jun of 1954 ? > >There has been a discussion of this - I forget whether it was here or on >soc.genealogy.britain; I think it was here - in the last few months. The >conclusion was, unfortunately, that BK doesn't _have_ a way of >indicating quarters. Yes, I think it was here, because we then had a >discussion on how people choose to record such dates. I put "Q2" into >the event note; others have different means. Unfortunately this is one >case where the wildcard _doesn't_ work; you'd think, for fourth quarter >(months 10, 11, and 12), that __1_1954 would work, but BK interprets >that as January. > >As each of these options gets a notice marked in red as ‘Invalid date’ >I am none the wiser as to which is the preferred method of expression in >BK.  Does it matter? > >We've also had a discussion of that. Unfortunately, BK indicates both a >wrongly-formatted date and an incomplete one (one with _s in it) in red >as "Invalid", at the point of entry. If it has converted what you >entered into your preferred format (and correctly), then it is OK and BK >will use it for calculations if it can. > >Thank you for reading this.  Please help me someone. > >I hope we have a bit. > But remember that some use of 00 and XX and -- and __ are no good idea when making gedcom and give that to other friends that do no have BK -- Otto Jørgensen http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/ All email is checked by NIS2014