On 23 Aug at 7:46, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I wasn't sure whether you are agreeing with me or disagreeing. I'm > only suggesting we use something like Q2 rather than Jun, which should > _help_ not only newcomers but anyone; all I'm suggesting is that if we > say Q2, it is less _likely_ that, further down the line, it'll lose > the "quarter" information, whereas if we continue to say Jun, it can > easily become corrupted into meaning the month. > > Interesting that, as well as the third month which is the standard way > and the first which I have seen, someone in this thread (for what > seems like a very sensible reason) uses the middle month - so all > three are in use. My problem is that my genealogy program, on which I store all my data, does not allow the use of Qn for a date. So I definitely use the middle month but prefixed by circa, which the program does accept. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/