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From: "Ian Westergaard" <>
Subject: Re: [DK] Genealogical dates
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 06:24:53 +1300
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Hi Della

As Erik has already mentioned the standard date format is set down in the
Gedcom Standard which can be found on the internet using Google.

The book by Elizabeth Shown Mills, which Chuck mentions, will probably have
chapter on dates.

Ian Westergaard
In Cloudy & Mild Central Otago
New Zealand

----- Original Message -----
From: "Della Steineckert" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: [DK] Genealogical dates


> Hi Ian,
>
> Is there a publication available that describes the standards of
data-entry
> acceptable as the "international genealogical format" which you mentioned?
> I agree that the date sequence, ddmmmyy, you describe prevents confusion
> regardless of personal choice or country customs.
>
> One possible reason some of us have errors in our data today could be
> misinterpretation of the date in the format that either our forbears read
or
> heard and then recorded according to their custom or desires or by us who
> now do the same thing with their records which we inherited. Spelling the
> month or first
> three letters and using four digits for the year certainly should leave
the
> date straightforward to anyone. Regardless of custom, convention, or
> correctness, what on earth will today's date, 12/01//03 (USA custom) mean
> to my descendants or anyone else who, several generations from now, may
live
> in diverse places on the planet earth, the moon, or who knows where.
>
> Della
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Westergaard" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 10:48 AM
> Subject: [DK] Genealogical dates
>
>
> > Hi All
> >
> > I notice some people are using the format mmddyyyy where mm and dd are
one
> > or two digit numbers representing the month and day and yyyy is a four
> digit
> > number representing the year. e.g. 6/10/1899 to represent the tenth day
of
> > June 1899. This is confusing as to some people it represents the sixth
day
> > of October 1899.
> >
> > The correct international genealogical format is ddmmmyyyy.

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