RE: Re-writing Genealogy::Gedcom::Date

2015-11-06 Thread John Washburn
O yeah. Dates and time are a can a worms. Moreover the worms under study wiggle all the more fiercely the more closely you focus on them (i.e. examine the details of dates and calendar representations). The key revelation for me 15 years ago was that date and calendar are not the same. Sorry I

RE: Re-writing Genealogy::Gedcom::Date

2015-11-06 Thread John Washburn
Ron: You may have to consider support for Astronomical Julian Days . Hear me out I have worked in logistics software for some many years and date calculations are the bedevilment of anything that touches the notion of date/time. For example, the

RE: Gedcom.pm 1.17 released

2013-01-01 Thread John Washburn
think that makes it harder to find it. And/or we could create wiki page(s) that describes these contrib items and how to use them. Anyway, please send your code when you get a chance. It might be a month +- before I get to look at it and give it a try. Thanks, -Steve On 1/1/2013 10:37 AM, John

RE: Feel like a Nube

2009-04-13 Thread John Washburn
; } } } From: John Washburn [mailto:j...@washburnresearch.org] Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 12:34 AM To: j...@washburnresearch.org; 'Philip Durbin'; 'Stephen Woodbridge' Cc: 'List - Gedcom' Subject: Feel like a Nube Just as thought I was getting the hang of the add

RE: detecting GEDCOM dates with a year and a month but no day

2009-04-12 Thread John Washburn
Would this work? It is a little more discriminating on the year matches. Person 8 and 5 are deliberate errors in the data format. It is hoped the verbose still is more clear. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $MonthPattern = (JAN|FEB|MAR|APR|MAY|JUN|JUL|AUG|SEP|OCT|NOV|DEC); my ($day,