In my previous message I indicated I use "Q3 1875" in the date field. I can confirm that using Q3 1875 in a date field DOES produce an accurate calculation of age in BK and in Group Sheets. The date is recognised simply as 1875. For example; I have an accurate birth date of a great aunt as 26 May 1872 and a death date as Q1 1955. Her age in the BK database is shown as "83+/-" and in the family group sheet it says "died at age 83". I was not aware that I could turn off the red warning, but am happy for it to be displayed and I ignore it where appropriate as in Q1 1955. All the best. Malcolm Webb mfwebb2005@btinternet.com <mailto:mfwebb2005@btinternet.com> -----Original Message----- From: bk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bk-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of J. P. Gilliver (John) Sent: 23 February 2012 00:58 To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BK] Why "invalid date"? Also quarters. In message <CMEFJIGMPKLPELNONILDMECADHAA.mfwebb2005@btinternet.com>, Malcolm Webb <mfwebb2005@btinternet.com> writes: >If I know an event happened in the 3rd quarter of a year I just input the >date as "Q3 1875" (without the quotes) and accept that it will come up in >red and tell me the date is invalid. All that means is that the date format >does not comply with the format I have chosen. The date actually prints as And isn't recognised as a date in calculations and similar. >Q3 1875 on all the reports I have used, so I don't see a problem. [] That would be nice (I'd tend to say 1875Q3, but whatever); I'll give it thought. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "I do not feel obliged to believe that the God who endowed me with sense, reason, and intellect intends me to forego their use". - Gallileo Gallilei Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:00:40 -0000, "Malcolm Webb" <mfwebb2005@btinternet.com> wrote: >In my previous message I indicated I use "Q3 1875" in the date field. I can >confirm that using Q3 1875 in a date field DOES produce an accurate >calculation of age in BK and in Group Sheets. The date is recognised simply >as 1875. > >For example; I have an accurate birth date of a great aunt as 26 May 1872 >and a death date as Q1 1955. Her age in the BK database is shown as "83+/-" >and in the family group sheet it says "died at age 83". > >I was not aware that I could turn off the red warning, but am happy for it >to be displayed and I ignore it where appropriate as in Q1 1955. > Q1 or similar are noot legal date for Gedcom and is a date range. Er could like to have that to be trafered to 1 jan to 31 mar on the other hand we do also have periods as Winter, spring, summer etc and neither of them are legal. When I say legal it is according to transferring by gedcom. The red warning is telling that you have unlegal date; it should accept 1955 jan 1955 12 jan 1955 and also date range using ABT BEF BET AFT and also translate that to natunal language all over when changing language in the program -- Otto Jørgensen http://www.bkwin.info/ All email is checked by NORTON