Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So it seems using 0's for the missing day or month may be how to do it.
This doesn't allow more specific amounts of ambiguity. I suggest
either a pair of dates, which represent the earliest and latest that
the event could have been (and are equal if there i
Ron Adam wrote:
> This is a very common problem in genealogy research as well as other
> sciences that deal with history, such as geology, geography, and archeology.
..
> So it seems using 0's for the missing day or month may be how to do it.
Except of course humans like to make things more com
Terry Hancock wrote:
> What do you do when a date or time is
> incompletely specified?
Doesn't the answer to this pretty much entirely depend on how you are
going to make use of the information? What are your use cases?
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Ron Adam wrote:
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> John Machin wrote:
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> > On Tue, 17 May 2005 17:38:30 -0500, Terry Hancock
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>What do you do when a date or time is
> >>incompletely specified?
> > The reason the ranges for the month and day specifiers begin
> with zero is t
John Machin wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2005 17:38:30 -0500, Terry Hancock
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>What do you do when a date or time is
>>incompletely specified? ISTM, that as it is, there is no
>>formal way to store this --- you have to guess, and there's
>>no way to indicate that the
On Tue, 17 May 2005 17:38:30 -0500, Terry Hancock
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What do you do when a date or time is
>incompletely specified? ISTM, that as it is, there is no
>formal way to store this --- you have to guess, and there's
>no way to indicate that the guess is different from solid
>in
Terry Hancock wrote:
> What do you do when a date or time is
> incompletely specified? ISTM, that as it is, there is no
> formal way to store this --- you have to guess, and there's
> no way to indicate that the guess is different from solid
> information. As a result, I have sometimes had to aba
What do you do when a date or time is
incompletely specified? ISTM, that as it is, there is no
formal way to store this --- you have to guess, and there's
no way to indicate that the guess is different from solid
information. As a result, I have sometimes had to abandon
datetime, even though it s
