On 12/04/2014 16:06, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Q date is a Legacy innovation introduced, in my view wrongly by user > request. > > The correct reference format is last month of the quarter+year, which is > what I use - not to mention all English statutory bodies.
Admittedly FreeBMD (to take one very widely used example) lists the quarters as, for example, "March 1845" or "December 1900" but I think this would be very confusing if I adopted this style in my database. In many cases I know the month and year of a vital event, but not the precise day. When I write March 1845 what I mean is "between 1 and 31 March 1845" and I think there are few people who would not read it as meaning that. What I write for a Quarter date, as per Legacy standard, is March Q 1845. This makes it very clear to most people exactly what I mean and it is a simple matter to explain to the few who don't. Much simpler than having to explain for every instance of March YYYY, June YYYY, September YYYY and December YYYY whether I actually meant "on one of the days in that month" or "at some time in the three months ending with that one"! I for one am a very satisfied Legacy customer in this respect - as in many others. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
