Dear listers, Since you are working with a PAF 5 data file, the correct format as far as paf5datescanner is concerned is what PAF 5 allows. You will note that PAF 5 will accept a variity of date formats but always converts the date you input to a format of ddmmyyyy or the format you select in your preferences. Lynn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PAF-5] PAF-5-USERS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 39 > Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:18:44 EDT > > > In a message dated 3/9/2008 4:07:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > However, that is not my main message. The > > add-on I would like to tell you about is > > called "PAF 5 datescanner". This program > > will scan all the dates in your PAF 5 data > > file and inform you of all those that are not > > in the correct format. > Good Morning from Chilly Florida > Could you please expand on what you mean by correct format? Is this > according to Mrs Mills Book on citations? > Church format? Someone else's format? > Formats as you put them in the system? > Thanks in advance > Doug Burnett > Satellite Beach > FL > > > ************** > It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & > Finance. > (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an > email to [email protected] with > the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >
Let me make one clarification to this. If PAF can figure out what the date is, then it converts it to an internal format as mentioned. Later, when it displays, it, the date is displayed according to your preference settings. If PAF can't figure it out, then it alerts you that the data is not a standard date, and it stores the text exactly as you entered it, and will display it in the future exactly as you entered it. For example, you could enter that an event happened on the "2nd Thursday after the Harvest moon", or "The day after my grandmother passed away" I expect that a utility to examine dates will flag these as potential problem dates. Gaylon [email protected] wrote: > Dear listers, > Since you are working with a PAF 5 data file, the correct format as far as paf5datescanner is concerned is what PAF 5 allows. You will note that PAF 5 will accept a variity of date formats but always converts the date you input to a format of ddmmyyyy or the format you select in your preferences. > Lynn > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [PAF-5] PAF-5-USERS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 39 >> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:18:44 EDT >> >> >> In a message dated 3/9/2008 4:07:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> >> >>> However, that is not my main message. The >>> add-on I would like to tell you about is >>> called "PAF 5 datescanner". This program >>> will scan all the dates in your PAF 5 data >>> file and inform you of all those that are not >>> in the correct format. >>> >> Good Morning from Chilly Florida >> Could you please expand on what you mean by correct format? Is this >> according to Mrs Mills Book on citations? >> Church format? Someone else's format? >> Formats as you put them in the system? >> Thanks in advance >> Doug Burnett >> Satellite Beach >> FL >> >> >> ************** >> It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & >> Finance. >> (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an >> email to [email protected] with >> the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >> the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >