Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

Hi Louis, In my humble opinion, genealogy software needs to strive to be able to accommodate whatever is possible in the physical world. In my own genealogical programming, I use that as the litmus test for what's really needed. It's certainly possible and was common for person's lives to span calendar ...

Hi Louis I think the solution you propose is workable, but I wonder if there is a gotcha to be leery of: mainly concerning the conversion algorithm used to convert Julian to Gregorian. Most Julian-to-Gregorian converters that I find on the web make no attempt to query the first-day-of-year preceding the date ...

I've been thinking about genealogical sorting algorithms for dates, thought I'd post some thoughts for your feedback. Concerning the storing/sorting format eluded to in a previous blog post, CBYYYYMDD*AA, I see that months for the calendar systems supported by Behold are specified by the designations 1-C, D-O, ...