Re: [Gramps-devel] Issue: 4383; too big dates

[Peter L. <pet...@te...>]

Den Tuesday 25 January 2011 17.45.59 skrev Benny Malengier:
> 2011/1/25 Peter Landgren <pet...@te...>
> 
> > Benny,
> > 
> > Tested both branch and trunk and get a red indication when too many
> > digits. It works fine even with my local patch that handles the way the
> > dates many times are written in
> > Sweden as: 19991231
> > 
> > This is very common in many of the registers available either as CD/DVD
> > or on the Internet..
> > And it simplifies copy-paste operations.
> 
> Yes, well the red will at least indicate in official Gramps that something
> is wrong, which is good I believe. Note that the mouse on the red icon will
> indicate the date is in the future.
> As you know, parsing  19991231 is something I consider dangerous. It could
> be American 19-99-1231 that is mistyped :-)
Yes, I know, but I require all 8 char in the "yyyymmdd" to be digits and that mm is a valid month 
(1-12) and dd is a valid day (1-31). I have not defined any limits on yyyy yet. For the moment, your 
patch limits the yyyy to 2011 now!  ;)

/Peter
 
> Benny
> 
> > /Peter
> > 
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