[Gramps-users] date nuance feedback requested

[Paul F. <pf....@gm...>]

I'm going to put something on the bug tracker.

What I'm trying to decide (and am soliciting your
feedback for) is whether to call it a bug report or
a feature request.

I like to see gramps dates as "day month-name year"
and so I always initially do that, change the Date
Format in Edit => Preferences => Display to be
"Day Month Year" instead of the numeric default.

I always just type my dates in directly.  I don't use
the "date selection dialog" the wiki talks about.  So
I really like how "bad" dates are highlighted in red.

Investigating the database-verify tool, I just discovered
that my perfectly-acceptable-no-red-highlighted date
of "between 10 and 15 May 1850" was not specifying
the "range" I was trying to specify, but instead it had
accepted it as "between 00-00-0010 and 1850-05-10"
(or however the ISO dates would look).  That is, a "range"
of more than eighteen centuries, I guess!

(I guess the tool then split the difference so no wonder
I got a "marriage before birth" error.  But it still took me
a long time to see why, the real reason.)

Well, needless to say of course I am going to change
any dates like that.  What I'd like to hear your feedback
on is whether I should make it a "feature request" that
some sort of warning message be shown, warning
the user that the result might not be what is desired,
or whether you think that gramps shouldn't accept such
a format at all, in which case it's a bug.

What's the consensus?

Thanks.