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. What I wanted was User-defined Date Modifiers, just as we have User-defined Events. The modifiers could be anything (such as "decade of," "early," "mid-," "late," "in the spring of," and my favorites (which I used prior to 2.08), such as "part of," "most of," "perhaps," "not before," "not after," and especially "at least," as in "John DOE lived at least 1860 at ..." For date calculation purposes I could accept that the modifiers would be ignored by CFTW. I was told to stick with the six modifiers provided (normal, about, before, after, from, between) because they were the only GEDCOM standards, yet we users are allowed to add and modify Standard Events. Delighted, therefore, to see someone else bringing up the subject of date formatting. At 08:07 AM 2/27/98 -0400, you wrote: >Hello Ira and others, I too have been considering requesting more >control of the AD addition to the date with text. I have some user defined >events for which I use the date space to enter an age, ie 34yrs 6 mo, >and this ends up with AD appended which looks out of place. Therefore I >too request the ability to turn off the BC/AD designation, BUT not at the >expense of losing the larger screen. > >From: "Michael CALDER" <mcalder@tpgi.com.au> >Subject: Dates >Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 18:34:52 +1100 > >G'day Ira et al, > >I am seem to have a minor annoyance in trying to use "non-standard" dates in >events. > >Not worrying about the grammar it is the "AD" that is the problem. Any >"word" attached to a date in the "date window" will trigger the addition of >AD (or you can choose BC). > >Can we have a "blank" option? so that we can have dates like "early 1856" >"mid 1950s" or even a bigger field to add "in the spring of 1991" <VBG>? > >HURU Mike > > > > ______________________________ | | | EMQUAD International, Ltd. | | P.O. Box 60 | | Great Neck, NY 11022 | | - | | emquad@worldnet.att.net | | http://home.att.net/~emquad | | - | | Consulting Division | | Publishing Division | |______________________________|