Terry, What I discussed is just one method of selecting a new date. It is discussed in section 9.3.1 and the commands are also given in the Command Summary, section 15.4.1.
Another method, which is to enter the desired date, is discussed only in section 9.3.2 (not in the Command Summary), although there are errors in that section I have yet to report to PDI (so I'm sending a CC of this to Maryanne Cathro). It says there are two date formats that the BN can use to present the date. One format is month-day-year, while the other is day-month-year. True, and you can just press ENTER with D to see which one is currently set for your BN. However, whichever format you use to type in the preferred date works for both cases. What it fails to mention, and I think this is where you tripped, is that if you use the month-day-year format with letters for the month name, you must put a letter sign (dots 5-6) before typing the month or the first three letters of the month name; otherwise, the BN presumes automatically that you are entering a number and reads j in January as 0 and d in December as 4, for instance. Now, when you press P from the Main Menu, then O to open the calendar, you can type the preferred date as follows: 26 january 04 26 january 2004 26 jan 04 26 jan 2004 january 26 04 january 26 2004 jan 26 04 jan 26 2004 Note that any of these eight styles will work, in whichever format your BN is displaying the date. Also, if the preferred date is within the current year, 2003, say 25 december 2003, then you can omit the two- or four-digit number indicating the year. Remember, for the last four styles listed above, you must type in a letter sign first. Also, numbers must be preceded by a Braille number sign (dots 3-4-5-6). The only time the date format used will matter is when you're entering the preferred date using numbers for the day, month and year. You must place a Braille number sign before the two-digit day number, another before the two-digit month number, and again one more before the two- or four-digit year number. Look at the following: For the day-month-year format, you type 26 01 04 26 01 2004 For the month-day-year format, you type 01 26 04 01 26 2004 Unlike what the manual seems to imply, having spaces or no spaces between the groups of numbers does not make any difference. HTH, Roselle >----- QUOTED MESSAGE ----- >Sent by: "Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Thanks Roselle >The calendar worked. Why didn't they put those commands in the command >list? They had entering letters. This is so much easier. It should be in >the new manual. >Thanks again. >Terry P
