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From: "MScheffler" <>
Subject: Re: [FO] Simple enhancement for next version - pop up calendar
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 11:34:23 -0400
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I believe what you are looking for is a perpetual calendar. There
is one in the World Almanac and several online. I can likely find some
urls for these if someone does not have one.

Margaret Scheffler

----- Original Message -----
From: "Loretta Krumwiede Barlow" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [FO] Simple enhancement for next version - pop up calendar


> I was about to post that information, too.
>
> What we want is a calendar that will show us the day of the week, for
> instance, or the date when all we know (from an obit, e.g.) is a date
of
> publication and a day of the week preceding the publication for an
event.
> For instance, a person died "last Tuesday," published in a newspaper
dated
> October 31, 1865. So, what was the date of "last Tuesday"? That's the
kind
> of calculator we want.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Earnie Breeding" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 9:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [FO] Simple enhancement for next version - pop up
calendar
>
>
> > True, but only for dates after 1980.
> > Earnie
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dick Wells" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 9:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: [FO] Simple enhancement for next version - pop up
calendar
> >
> >
> > In Windows (all versions which run FOW), a pop up calendar is
already
> > available.
> >
> > Juck click on the clock in the right lower corner on the task bar.
> >
> > Dick
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeff" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 6:04 AM
> > Subject: [FO] Simple enhancement for next version - pop up calendar
> >
> >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I have been wading through a lot of new data with event dates
stated as
> > "the
> > > 3rd Sabbath in November" for example.
> > >
> > > It occured to me that a simple pop up calendar would be a nice
> enhancement
> > > for the next version. A button alongside the date field which
would
> bring
> > up
> > > a simple 7x5 calendar for the month in question.
> > >
> > > This would need to work regardless of the full date or just month
and
> year
> > > entered and the calculating software is already within FO.
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > >
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