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At the time, the way I hoped to implement this was to integrate both the log file and the GEDCOM file into Behold. It was a nice idea at the time, but I later decided that this was not important functionality needed by Behold. The log file need only be there for the people who were interested and needed to ...

Over at BetterGEDCOM, they're crossing the entire spectrum of dates, from simple to complex to international, so everything is being looked at. Personally, I don't think that GEDCOM did that bad a job at defining dates. I like the concept of date phrases for anything that isn't a standard date. A partial date ...

It is not correct to put 13 APR into GEDCOM. That is definitely illegal syntax. There is no "correct" or "not correct" regarding converting non-valid dates to a date phrase. It is my personal opinion that it is best to do so, so that the information entered is still associated with the date and is not lost. ...

The first four are invalid. You need the year to have a month and you need the year and the month to have the day. Behold will put the first 4 into parentheses, e.g. (13 APR) to make them a date phrase which is valid. The last two are both valid.

Thanks goulooze. Feedback is good. Beer is good, too.

Brett: I'm still making my last few changes to the event sorting. I have to put the children in birthdate order, and the spouses into marriage order. I'll be embedding them into the right place (date-wise) amongst all the events of an individual. Doing so just makes adding the consistency checking very ...

Thanks for that, Brett. You'll be interested to know that as a result of your earlier email to me, I reinvestigated consistency checking. With the addition of true date parsing and my implementation of that in version 1.0.1, this is now quite possible, and the setup of Behold makes it rather do-able. If I ...