Hello all, we allow the user to associate a point in time with any document in our archive. This field is later used for quick visual selection of the relevant documents a doctor is looking for, eg "8/2001 neurological discharge letter" where the "8/2001" is the part coming from the date field.
Currently, this field is free text such as not to constrain whatever precision of date is known, eg 2001, 8/2001, 2001/8/27, 2001/8/27 @ 15:22:33 are all possible inputs. However, "total crap" is valid input, too, currently, which does not lend itself to useful post-processing. Making it a real timestamp isn't really an option due to medical realities. I am not sure about the stability of Ian's attempt at a fuzzy timestamp type. So, what do people think we should allow as input in terms of string parsing. I am thinking of (d=digit): dddd - year d/dddd or dd/dddd - month/year dddd/dd/dd - year/month/day dddd/dd/dd hh:mm:ss - year/month/day hour:minutes:seconds Do you think this will suffice ? Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
