Yes, it is more dificult.... I recognized that. However - if the programmers are already doing a secondary sort on dob (the primary sort being on Name - and Sherry from Legacy said that Legacy does the secondary automatically when you are sorting by name for all names that are the same) - they obviously have the code available to sort the dates (even the non-standard ones) .... so that makes it pretty trivial to this programmer mind.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Mike Fry <mike...@iafrica.com> wrote: > Heather Stovold wrote: > >> Thanks Sherry - the problem is we would rather be able to sort by the DOB >> column (or potentially any column shown) so that we can look for people with >> the same or similar birth dates that don't have the same name. I know if it >> was a standard date field it would probably be trivial code - but I do >> recognize that genealogy dates are not in a standard date field. >> > > And dates taken from the GRO are definitely non-standard, being entered as > <month> Q <year>, where <month> is Mar or Jun or Sep or Dec. A standard can > not be used for this since the <month> Q combination is shorthand for 1 > <month> - 2 to <last day> <month>. > > Definitely *not* a trivial exercise for the programmers :-) > >
