Re: [Phpgedview-talk] how to indicate julian calendar?

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waldo kitty schrieb am 27.09.2008 03:53:

> i've numerous gedcom records that are dated using the julian calendar format. 
> this format, as i understand it, starts the new year on March 25th and not Jan 
> 1st...

Not quite as I understand it.

> how can i indicate, in each date field, that it is a julian calendar date so 
> that the age is figured properly?

This is the easy part. Tag like this in your GEDCOM file:
DATE @#DJULIAN@ 19 OCT 1663

> ie: for Henry Boone, son of George Boone (II)...
> [quote]
> Documents owned by the Boone Society:
> (1) Henry Son of George Boone was baptized the nineteenth of October 1663
>   Henry Son of George Boone was buryed ye eighth of February 1663
> 
> (Note: In the old style reckoning [Julian calendar], March 25 was the beginning 
> of the year, therefore the infant Henry would have been about 4 months old at 
> his burial.)
> [end quote]

With the new style calendar (Gregorian) the new year started on Jan 1st,
  but before (Julian) it wasn't necessarily March 25th. Depending on
when and where, there had been different kinds of new year, like Jan
1st, Mar 25th, Dec 25th, Eastern and others.

So, the @#DJULIAN@ tag just makes PhpGedView calculate the proper _day_,
but you would have to adjust the year manually if it didn't start on Jan
1st. AFAIK.

Regards,
Duesterhoeft