Re: Fwd: Re: [Gramps-devel] Nasty date problem [shura@gramps-project.org]

[Don A. <don...@co...>]

Actually, it shouldn't be hard to extend the date parser to handle this.
However, I'd like to put this off until 2.0.1.

Don

Alex Roitman wrote:
> Sorry, forgot to reply to the list.
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> Richard,
> 
> On 05/06/2005 10:34:22 AM, Richard Taylor wrote:
> 
>>I have just noticed a nasty date problem.
>>
>>Open any record that has a date.
>>Enter something like "5th April 2004" in the date.
> 
> 
> The present parser does not recognize 5th, 2nd, 3rd, etc.
> 
> 
>>Save the record.
>>Reopen the record.
>>
>>The date now says just "5".
> 
> 
> In all honesty, the LED is yellow after you enter such date.
> The yellow indicates partial date, so the user can click on
> LED and check how the date was parsed.
> 
> Is this not enough? Do we want to tell the user that
> "the date is incomplete" any time the incomplete date
> is entered? Or should we re-display the date in the field
> to reflect the parsing?
> 
> Alex
>