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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Genealogy Software
Date: 24 Oct 2001 08:31:14 -0500
Date: 2001-10-24T08:31:14-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <KpgR8Jhj35ni@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ev_remove_this_ans-2410010907240001@192.168.1.254

In article <ev_remove_this_ans-2410010907240001@192.168.1.254>, ev_remove_this_ans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr) writes:

> There's an ISO standard for today as 2001.10.24 (or maybe 2001-10-24).
> Dates stored like this go back further than any genealogist is likely
> to need (well, unless you can trace back to Adam).  Moreover, they
> collate, in that an alphabetic comparison between two dates reveals
> which is later.
> 
> This solution of course does not address date ranges, or approximate
> dates.

Or issues regarding which calendar system was used to record that date.
Today dates around the world are synchronized, but that was not so
for a while after the pope ordered a change.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-24 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-22 22:08 Genealogy Software Larry Hazel
2001-10-22 22:26 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-23 14:20   ` Larry Hazel
2001-10-23 14:54     ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-22 22:44 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-23  0:53   ` Bruce or Tracy Jacobs
2001-10-23  6:54   ` Remarriages, how common is it? Petter Fryklund
2001-10-23 15:46     ` Remarriages, how common is it? [off-topic] Wes Groleau
2001-10-23 16:04       ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-23 16:09         ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-24 10:59       ` SV: " Bror Johansson
2001-10-23 15:40   ` Genealogy Software [off-topic] Wes Groleau
2001-10-24 13:20     ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-24 15:09       ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-23 13:34 ` Genealogy Software Ted Dennison
2001-10-24 13:07   ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-24 13:31     ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2001-10-23 17:24 ` Genealogy Software then slightly [OFF TOPIC] Martin Dowie
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