In message <7cg2199tu6fegerv7hpfrj1mlsb4llp2jp@4ax.com>, Charles Ellson <ce11son@yahoo.ca> writes: >On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:05:21 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" ><G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote: [] >>What does the house think (about the suggestion we try to stop using >>just one month to indicate a quarter)? >> >It has been standard to refer to MAR, JUN, SEP, DEC quarters since >1837. [] It may have been, but (as well as the fact that I _have_ seen them referred to as Jan, Apr, July, and Oct), there are lots of cases where the word - or concept - of "quarter" gets dropped/lost, so what was "Jun Qtr 1897" gets recorded/shown as "Jun 1897". If we used "Q2" rather than "Jun", I think that would be less _likely_ to happen. -- 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.

On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:14:48 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In message <7cg2199tu6fegerv7hpfrj1mlsb4llp2jp@4ax.com>, Charles Ellson ><ce11son@yahoo.ca> writes: >>On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:05:21 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" >><G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote: >[] >>>What does the house think (about the suggestion we try to stop using >>>just one month to indicate a quarter)? >>> >>It has been standard to refer to MAR, JUN, SEP, DEC quarters since >>1837. >[] >It may have been, but (as well as the fact that I _have_ seen them >referred to as Jan, Apr, July, and Oct), there are lots of cases where >the word - or concept - of "quarter" gets dropped/lost, so what was "Jun >Qtr 1897" gets recorded/shown as "Jun 1897". If we used "Q2" rather than >"Jun", I think that would be less _likely_ to happen. When I enter such things, I enter the events as Abt May for the June Quarter, and in the source reference put FreeBMD, (Placename) Births (or whatever), Jun Qtr followed by the volume and the page. -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/