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.
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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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