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MyopicVicar (short-sighted clergyman!) is an open-source genealogy record database and search engine. It powers the FreeREG database of parish registers, the FreeCEN database of census records, the next version of FreeBMD database of Civil Registration indexes and other Genealogical applications.
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Entering only a month and year (with no day) results in the system assuming the day is the start of the month #2514

Closed SteveBiggs closed 2 years ago

SteveBiggs commented 2 years ago

In the case of there being a birth date of say, 5 Jun 1853 and a baptism date just stating Jun 1853 (no day given), the system reports an error that the baptism is before the birth so it must be assuming a day at the start of the month. If not stated, it should not assume any specific day, but could be any day in the month.

PatReynolds commented 2 years ago

Decided that the effort in making the system accept this situation is great, and implimenting it would probably cause other problems, therefore the solution applied here: record date of birth, put only the year into the baptism date, and put the date of baptism 'as is' full transcription into the notes.

SteveBiggs commented 2 years ago

I've sent an explaining email to the transcriber.

AlOneill commented 2 years ago

@SteveBiggs Do we want to update the Help, with the fix for a similar error message? There are a number of possible real situations so it seems sensible to describe the fix as a response to the error message. Or perhaps we do not want to go there at all, because the circumstances occur only rarely? (I hope that makes sense!)

SteveBiggs commented 2 years ago

@AlOneill perhaps update the UCF section to say that when no day is included in a date (just the month and year), the day defaults to the 1st of the month.

AlOneill commented 2 years ago

@SteveBiggs Good thinking. Have updated "Entering data …" and "Flexible CSV".

PatReynolds commented 2 years ago

@AlOneill is this now in live or still on test3 (needing checking?)

AlOneill commented 2 years ago

@PatReynolds this is now on live. Closing.