Some software makes no designation of difference between FROM/TO and BET/AND. Without surveying all applications I would not make this assumption. I would thus agree with that the interpretation of the German GEDCOM group is probably not what is present in the majority of existing GEDCOM files and that the definition now established is the more reasonable one.
Including xĮxact date unknown, but no later than x. The definition should have been made more precise, for example:Įxact date unknown, but no later than x. Interfacing is why GEDCOM is valuable, and not being precise in a definition defeats that value. This attitude causes interfacing between two programs impossible when the program’s come up with their own interpretation. Like so many times in GEDCOM the designers try to not make a stand as to the meaning or definition of a word or tag, and leave it up to the user/application designer to decide the use. Saying the following makes no sense to me: “ that the definition now established is the more reasonable one.”. This is particularly important when building a time line of events. Maybe it is a language use or some custom in a location, but BEF/AFT has never been inclusive of the date, particularly if in the future a TIME is included in the use of a DATE. I’ve alway used BEF/AFT to not include the date provided. īeta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback. we started to discuss using "<" for "BEF" from GEDCOM 5.5.1 and "<=" for "BEF" from GEDCOM 7.0. Is there any recommendation, how an application should show the data to the user?įor 2.How should any conversion 5.5.1 to 7.0 handle this?.If one application does that, another does not, "same" data are represented in GEDCOM 7.0 in different ways.
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How to handle this when converting GEDCOM 5.5.1 to GEDCOM 7.0 ? To have the same interpretation in GEDCOM 7, we have to write in GEDCOM 7.0:
Is defined to be: on any date up to (included), and not on or later Was interpreted as on any date up to, but not on or later. Now GEDCOM 7.0 has modified the definition to:īEF x = Exact date unknown, but no later than x. This is interpreted by most users as the given date not be included. In our German group we have a discussion about the DATE payloads with BEF and AFT.ĪFT = Event happened after the given date.īEF = Event happened before the given date.
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