Tony,
I'll give your suggestion a try and let you know.
In answer to your question, no the old dates were not correct when not
specifying UTC. All dates were incorrect before specifying UTC and only
dates 1884 and sooner were correct when specifying UTC.
Damon
On Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 10:08:16 PM UTC-7, TonyM wrote:
>
> Damon,
>
> Since you are entering the data manually perhaps you can do one of the
> following
>
> 1. Have separate fields for year, month and day and do your own Date
> formatting {{!!day))-{{!!month))-{{!!Year}}
> 2. Find away to split you date into something like number 1 then do
> the same.
>
> This is clearly a workaround because UTC fails back then. PS are the old
> dates correct when not specifying UTC?
>
> Maybe other "Historians" will notice this thread.
>
> Tonyu
>
>
> On Friday, 1 February 2019 15:47:53 UTC+11, Damon Pritchett wrote:
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> I tried putting [UTC] in the date format as you suggested. This worked
>> great for years 1884 and higher. I’ve created a field called charterdate
>> and am using that in the field area of the view widget. I’ve entered the
>> date in the field as 18710215. That’s the actual date I’m working with
>> (Feb. 15,1871).
>>
>> Damon
>
>
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