http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=127 The Behold User Forum Topic: Invalid date format http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/../beholddiscuss.gif Posts by Louis Kessler are Copyright 2000-2013 Louis Kessler, All Rights Reserved. Posts by others belong to the people who made them. en http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=127#post-382 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:20:21 GMT lkessler 382@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Brett:</p> <p>It depends on the program and what it lets you do. If programs allow date phrases, which are dates in any format whatsoever, then that would be fine. A date phrase in GEDCOM is any expression enclosed in parenthesis, e.g.:</p> <p>2 DATE (April 13)</p> <p>If that is not allowed in your program, I'd just add it as a note, e.g. NOTE Aunt Helen's birthday was on April 13, but we never knew how old she was.</p> <p>GEDCOM requires a year, or a year an a month, or a year and a month and a day for the date to be expressed in the valid date format of: dd MMM yyyy - which prevents ambiguity and allows sorting of dates for programs that want to do that.</p> <p>Louis </p> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=127#post-381 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:25:00 GMT brett 381@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Format members</p> <p>Occasionally you do not know a complete date, such as:</p> <p>13 (Date only known)<br /> 13 APR (Date and month only known)<br /> APR (Month only known).</p> <p>What/how do people code this in their software?</p> <p>Do they:</p> <p>Key it in the date field?</p> <p>Include it as a note?</p> <p>Some other option.</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>Brett </p> General Discussion