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Dealing with Erroneous dates / times #64

Closed saulgreenberg closed 8 years ago

saulgreenberg commented 8 years ago

The system currently does not handle erroneous dates / times (e.g., empty dates/ times, or strings that are not dates) in a consistent or effective way. The code should be changed to handle this, by either:

insisting that dates / times always be well formed (e.g., on user data entry, and when reading files)
substituting malformed dates (if present) with either a cleared field or the date Jan 1, 0001 00:00:00

The code currently comments the changes I am making to fix this as SAULXXXDATE, in case I have to reverse them.

saulgreenberg commented 8 years ago

All date correction routines have been altered to try to deal with erroneous dates. However, we still allow for bad dates to entered by the user. I'll put this in another separate issue to be handled in the future.