In message <kurm5p$ns6$1@speranza.aioe.org>, Renia <renia@otenet.gr> writes: >On 18/08/2013 17:25, Graeme Wall wrote: >> On 18/08/2013 17:05, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: >>> Can we as a hobby/profession start to abandon using only a month to >>> refer to a quarter, when further precision isn't known? I'd suggest >>> any of >>> >>> Apr-Jun 1891 >>> 1891, Apr-Jun >>> Q2 1891 >>> 1891Q2 >> >> I tend to use <year> Mar/4, Jun/4, Sep/4 and Dec/4 > > >I tend to use 1891Q3, but not in databases, only in notes. In databases >I just use 1891. In Brother's Keeper (which does not acknowledge quarters), I record the year in the date field, and "Q3" in the comment field for that event. (I don't usually allow for the registration delay, as _I_ know about that possibility. But I do realise that's going against what I'm saying!) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf A man is not contemptible because he thinks science explains everything, and a man is not contempptible because he doesn't. - Howard Jacobson, in Radio Times 2010/1/23-29.