On 20/08/2013 15:09, singhals wrote: > > Aren't there enough things the newbie (and the oldie) need to > remember about boundary changes and calendar changes and how Regnal > dates and the Quaker dating system(s) differ from the > Gregorian/Julian and why Uncle James' baptism is down as Jacobus ... > without tossing in an unnecessary difference? Even if /this/ change > seems like a good idea at the time. What change? And the whole point of any discipline is to learn its methods, not try and change what you find too difficult to interpet.