At 08:39 AM 2/27/98 -0500, you wrote: >Ever since the date format was changed in 2.08 I have tried in vain to get >a revision which would solve the problems indicated by Michael and David >and my own use of dates, too. Don't mean to ignore everyone on this issue, but per my previous note I'm afraid that I am going to go the direction indicated for Ver 3. There are several incompatible issues here. First we need the date field to be "calculatable" - a true date that can be used to calculate from. In Ver 3 (UCC date) the date is so well formatted that it can even re-order dates properly even when they are in different calendar systems! This IS the direction I am going. I feel this to be so important that I am afraid I have turned a deaf ear to your requests. Anything that is NOT a standard type date should go into the notes... Or another idea I might do in Ver 3 is add a second field: non-standard date - which would be a free-format non-calcualtable field that would allow entry of anything a user would want to enter. But such a field would never be usable for sorting date orders, or other date calculatons, etc. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com