Re: [Gramps-users] date confusion

[Douglas S. B. <db...@cs...>]

> Of course but that's not the issue here. The question is how to handle
> years with a slash like 1688/9.
>
> Afaik gramps has no special handling of dates like that.

Yes, GRAMPS does handle such slash dates. If there is any problem with
entering a slash date, please post a bug report.

-Doug

> On 6/29/08, Perkins, Jerry <Jer...@jp...> wrote:
>>     I am running Gramps 2.2.3.
>>     At the top of my dialog box for dates, there is a calendar
>> selection, Gregorian, Julian, Hebrew, etc.    When I select Julian,
>> Gramps adds in (Julian) behind the date.
>>
>> Julian date has a leap year every four years.
>>
>> Gregorian.  Pope Gregory went to the Gregorian calendar in 1582.   But
>> since the Gregorian calendar has a leap year every 4 years, except if
>> divisible by 100, unless divisible by 400. hence the dates slip by one
>> day every hundred years.   Hence today (June 29) is June 15 Julian.
>> The USA went to the Gregorian calendar in the 1700s.   Russia was still
>> using the Julian calendar till only a few years ago.
>>
>>
>> Gerald Britton wrote:
>>> If you mean that 1688/9 means "1688 Julian or 1689 Gregporian", I
>>> don't think Gramps supports that at all
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Gerald Britton
>>> <ger...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Basically your date is in a range.  Date ranges in Gramps are entered
>>>> in of the two forms:
>>>>
>>>> from <date> to <date>  # useful for durations such as "resided from 1
>>>> jan 1689 to 1 jan 1689."
>>>>
>>>> or
>>>>
>>>> between <date> and <date> #useful for uncertain dates, like "died
>>>> between 1 jan 1689 and 1 jan 1689"
>>>>
>>>> Choose the one that fits your needs the best.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Martin Ewing AA6E
>>>> <aa...@ew...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am entering some dates from the 17th century, which are quoted in
>>>>> the
>>>>> New England Historical  and Genealogical Record in the form 31 Jan.
>>>>> 1688/9, which represents the Julian/Gregorian representation in
>>>>> English/American usage.  (Which, alas, I do not fully grok.)
>>>>>
>>>>> How to enter these?  I am trying 1688/9-01-31.  That is accepted, but
>>>>> turns into 1689/90-01-30 (Julian) in gramps' Event Reference Editor
>>>>> dialog.  Weird.  Even weirder, if I click OK again on the ERE without
>>>>> changing the date field,  the date comes back 1690/1-01-31 on the
>>>>> personal record.  And so on to 1691/2-01-31 etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> This sure looks like a bug.  But maybe I don't understand how
>>>>> Julian/Gregorian dates are supposed to be handled.  The help info on
>>>>> dates talks about alternative calendars, but not about this
>>>>> particular
>>>>> date style.
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA for advice.
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Martin Ewing, AA6E
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>>>>> +1-203-315-5160
>>>>>
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>>
>>
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