RootsMagic 8:Date Formats - Revision history

Renee at 02:28, 28 August 2021

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Bruce: /* Date Formats */

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Date Formats

Renee at 02:42, 27 August 2021

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Bruce: /* Sort dates */

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Bruce at 16:08, 26 August 2021

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Bruce: /* Sort dates */

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 ==Date Formats==
-Any date you type in the Date field will be accepted. Recognized dates will be converted into a standard format for displaying and printing. For all-numeric dates, there is a setting in "Settings, General Settings" to let you set your preference for day-month-year or month-day-year. Even if the date you enter is not converted to a standard format, such as "the first Wednesday after the big fire in 1808", RootsMagic will still accept the date as you typed it into the Date field. However, you must enter your own sort date to tell RootsMagic where to locate the fact in relation to the other facts.
+Any date you type in the Date field will be accepted. Recognized dates will be converted into a standard format for displaying and printing. RootsMagic includes an option in "Settings, General Settings" to let you choose between day-month-year or month-day-year for data entry. Even if the date you enter is not converted to a standard format, such as "the first Wednesday after the big fire in 1808", RootsMagic will still accept the date as you typed it into the Date field. However, you must enter your own sort date to tell RootsMagic where to locate the fact in relation to the other facts.
 RootsMagic highlights unrecognized dates by changing the background field color to a pale yellow. Unrecognized dates entered into the sort date field will also be highlighted in yellow, but the unrecognized date will be discarded from the sort date field when your click the Save button.

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 ==Date Formats==
-Any date you type in the Date field will be accepted. Recognized dates will be converted into a standard format for displaying and printing. For all-numeric dates, there is a setting in "Tools, File Options" to let you set your preference for day-month-year or month-day-year. Even if the date you enter is not converted to a standard format, such as "the first Wednesday after the big fire in 1808", RootsMagic will still accept the date as you typed it into the Date field. However, you must enter your own sort date to tell RootsMagic where to locate the fact in relation to the other facts.
+Any date you type in the Date field will be accepted. Recognized dates will be converted into a standard format for displaying and printing. For all-numeric dates, there is a setting in "Settings, General Settings" to let you set your preference for day-month-year or month-day-year. Even if the date you enter is not converted to a standard format, such as "the first Wednesday after the big fire in 1808", RootsMagic will still accept the date as you typed it into the Date field. However, you must enter your own sort date to tell RootsMagic where to locate the fact in relation to the other facts.
 RootsMagic highlights unrecognized dates by changing the background field color to a pale yellow. Unrecognized dates entered into the sort date field will also be highlighted in yellow, but the unrecognized date will be discarded from the sort date field when your click the Save button.
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 Only directional date modifiers are stored in the Sort date field, qualitative modifiers are not. For example, a date entered as "certainly before 25 Dec 1859", will have a sort date of "bef 25 Dec 1859" – "certainly" is not stored.. As a result, dates with directional modifiers are sorted before or after dates with qualitative modifiers (in the Date field.) Directional modifiers are sorted in the following order:
-*·Bet ... and ...
+*Bet ... and ...
 *from ... to ...
 *"dash"

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 *After
-Sorting events on the same date
+'''Sorting events on the same date'''
 On occasion events can happen on the same date, such as a death, the funeral, and the burial. If these events were entered into RootsMagic with the same date, the order may be random, likely making the events appear out of order, such as burial, funeral, death. To avoid this, you would enter the correct date into the fact date field, and then append a dash and number to the sort date to force the events into the correct order, e.g.

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 RootsMagic supports a variety of date formats for data entry, and a wide variety of date modifiers and qualifiers that appear before the actual date (BC appears after the date.) Double dates and Quaker dates are also supported.
 Any date you type in the Date field will be accepted. Recognized dates will be converted into a standard format for displaying and printing. For all-numeric dates, there is a setting in "Tools, File Options" to let you set your preference for day-month-year or month-day-year. Even if the date you enter is not converted to a standard format, such as "the first Wednesday after the big fire in 1808", RootsMagic will still accept the date as you typed it into the Date field. However, you must enter your own sort date to tell RootsMagic where to locate the fact in relation to the other facts.
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 *BC – Before Christ or Before the Common Era (e.g. 100 BC)
-Double dates
+==Double dates==
 Double dates were used after the Gregorian Calendar was introduced in 1583 to replace the Julian Calendar, because of inaccuracies in the Julian Calendar leap year calculations. The Julian Calendar used March 25 as the start of the new year and March 24 as the last day of the year. The Gregorian calendar moved the start of the year to January 1. The Gregorian calendar wasn't adopted by the British empire (including its colonies, the US and Canada) until 1752 and other countries as later as 1923. In the intervening years, dates between Jan. 1 and Mar. 24 were written as 15 Feb 1675/6 to indicate the year was 1675 on the Julian (or Old Style) calendar, but was 1676 on the Gregorian (or New Style) calendar. RootsMagic displays the year with one digit after the / for most years, except it shows 2 digits for a decade, i.e. 1679/80, or 4 digits for a century, i.e. 1699/1700.
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 Double dates entered with years before 1583/4 are treated as unrecognized dates, while double dates entered for 25 Mar to 31 Dec after 1583 are also treated as unrecognized dates.
-Quaker dates
+==Quaker dates==
 RootsMagic has built-in date support for Quaker dates. Quaker date are written referring to days of the weeks and months of the year by their number rather than the names which were based on "pagan" gods.

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 On occasion events can happen on the same date, such as a death, the funeral, and the burial. If these events were entered into RootsMagic with the same date, the order may be random, likely making the events appear out of order, such as burial, funeral, death. To avoid this, you would enter the correct date into the fact date field, and then append a dash and number to the sort date to force the events into the correct order, e.g.
-|Fact
+{|class="wikitable" style="width: 90%;"
-|Date field
+! style="width: 33%; text-align:left;"| Fact
-|Sort Date field
+! style="width: 33%"|Date field
 |Death
 |12 Jan 1875
 |12 Jan 1875–1
 |Funeral
 |12 Jan 1875
 |12 Jan 1875–2
 |Burial
 |12 Jan 1875
 |12 Jan 1875–3