So I found that separating the year, month and day doesn't really do what I
want. It's much easier to treat the field as text and then enter
1871-02-15. I'll still be able to sort that way. I'm still hoping that
someone will see this thread and have a fix or work around. Is this a bug?
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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