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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Genealogy Software
Date: 24 Oct 2001 08:31:14 -0500
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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.