Re: [Gramps-users] Date data entry question

[Jérôme <rom...@ya...>]

> The question: how do other genealogical packages handle the issue that
> some dates in some places had different new year's days?
> 
> Perhaps they don't make this distinction?

Seems they use the same set of rules for most dates and places :

http://geneweb.inria.fr/example?lang=en;m=CAL
example : http://geneweb.inria.fr/example?lang=en;m=MOD_IND;i=611

http://genealogie-servin.geneamania.net/Calendriers.php
(don't work on my navigator)

But GRAMPS' localized date handlers has starting to make a distinction 
for conversion !!! French calendar on current date_fr should started on 
1792-9-22. (I hope so)

There was a conversion issue on gramps 2.x
http://bugs.gramps-project.org/view.php?id=445
generating mistakes :(
It was "trial and error" before finding the start of the year with code 
for french calendar.

Maybe to introduce a "style-like" on calendar
For England and British Dominions :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_%28New_Style%29_Act_1750
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates

which will set the first day (an maybe the last) of the calendar.

Localized date handlers should be able to use the value according to 
their history.
Gramps uses B.C.E and for me, it is something like values "out of used 
calendar".
B.C.E first value is the first day after the sart of used calendar, no ?

To set a B.C.E value for each calendars according to our culture/locale ?

> If so, how would you enter it in a data entry field? 

Maybe to avoid too many fields. User should still be able to add quickly 
the date without Date editor.


Jerome


Douglas S. Blank a écrit :
> Gramps users,
> 
> I'm a developer working on a data entry issue for dates. For some times
> and places, the new year didn't start on 1 January. This, or course, would
> effect the ordering of dates, and in using dates to compute items like
> ages. For more info on this, see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year
> 
> The question: how do other genealogical packages handle the issue that
> some dates in some places had different new year's days?
> 
> Perhaps they don't make this distinction?
> 
> Maybe they require you to indicate that information when you enter the date?
> If so, how would you enter it in a data entry field? How would that date
> be printed out?
> 
> If you have any information or ideas on this, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Doug
> 
> 
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