1st January 1970 is the "epoch" date used for internal date calculations. If you won't be doing any numerical processing of date information and just want a date for display purposes, a plain text Topic Property might be better. This has a few advantages for family trees:
You can add as many dates as you need, e.g. birth, marriage, death
You can type the date in any format you prefer, as it is plain text
You can type incomplete dates, e.g. just a year when you don't know an exact date
The properties can be exported to Word or other formats.
1st January 1970 is the "epoch" date used for internal date calculations. If you won't be doing any numerical processing of date information and just want a date for display purposes, a plain text Topic Property might be better. This has a few advantages for family trees:
You can add as many dates as you need, e.g. birth, marriage, death
You can type the date in any format you prefer, as it is plain text
You can type incomplete dates, e.g. just a year when you don't know an exact date
The properties can be exported to Word or other formats.
1st January 1970 is the "epoch" date used for internal date calculations. If you won't be doing any numerical processing of date information and just want a date for display purposes, a plain text Topic Property might be better. This has a few advantages for family trees:
1st January 1970 is the "epoch" date used for internal date calculations. If you won't be doing any numerical processing of date information and just want a date for display purposes, a plain text Topic Property might be better. This has a few advantages for family trees:
Thank you Nick. This makes perfect sense. :)
Thank you Nick. This makes perfect sense. :)
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