To J. P. Gilliver If you want the date to contain a _ then ignore the "invalid date" message. The message "invalid date" just means that date does not exist as exactly one day on a calendar. If you see "invalid date" and were trying to type one day on a calendar, then you may have typed it wrong. So in your case, just ignore the message. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 5:32 PM Subject: [BK] Why "invalid date"? Also quarters. >I know an event is between 30 and 31 March 1851, so I enter > > 3_031851 > > (I have ddmmyyyy selected as _entry_ format for dates). BK correctly > converts it to > > 3_ Mar 1851 > > (I have that format selected for date _display_ format). > > But BK also says in red "Invalid date". > > What gives? > > (Similarly, "CIR ____1812" gets correctly converted to "CIR __ ___ 1812" > but is also flagged as "Invalid".) > > Also, if I know something happened in the fourth quarter - i. e. month > 10, 11, or 12 - and I enter the date as "__1_1666", it gets converted to > "__ Jan 1666". (__0_1666 - for any of the other three quarters - comes > out as __ ___ 1666, which is perhaps OK.) Ideally I'd like a way of > recording a quarter. (Currently, I just put "Q4" [or whatever] in the > notes field for that event, but would be interested to hear what others > do, or any suggestions.) > -- > J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf > > "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here: this is the war room!" (Dr. > Strangelove) > 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 >

In message <4195671F1D364A8598F8185A1820EE34@Dell4600>, John Steed <brothers_keeper@msn.com> writes: >To J. P. Gilliver > >If you want the date to contain a _ then ignore the "invalid date" message. > >The message "invalid date" just means that date does not exist as >exactly one day on a calendar. I see. > >If you see "invalid date" and were trying to type one day on a >calendar, then you may have typed it wrong. I'd thought, since the format with the "_"(s) in is parsed by BK (I started using it after reading the manual!), that the "Invalid date" message might be restricted for something BK couldn't parse - such as one too many or few symbols. > >So in your case, just ignore the message. > >John Steed > Will do! Thanks for replying. [] (Also a John.) -- 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