Here are more dates that don't "fit the format": 19 July 1943 VII-19-1943 19-VII-1943 Margriet Wetherwax Museum Scientist University and Jepson Herbaria 1001 VLSB #2465 University of California Berkeley CA 94720-2465

Thanks for these, Margriet. Earlier, we spoke about a format similar to the last one you list here, only it used two digits for the date (e.g., 19-VII-43, rather than 19-VII-1943). Would it be possible for you to hand-modify the entries with two-year dates into the four-year date format? How many entries are there? How much work would that be? You mentioned that those two-year-formatted dates go back to 1836. Rather than setting a rule such as assuming two year dates to be in the 20th century -- a rule that would be wrong a lot of the time -- could you update the data so that all entries had four-year dates? Thanks again, Rick On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Margriet Wetherwax <margriet@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Here are more dates that don't "fit the format": > > 19 July 1943 > > VII-19-1943 > > 19-VII-1943 > > > Margriet Wetherwax > Museum Scientist > University and Jepson Herbaria > 1001 VLSB #2465 > University of California > Berkeley CA 94720-2465 > > _______________________________________________ > Talk mailing list > Talk@lists.collectionspace.org > > http://lists.collectionspace.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_lists.collectionspace.org > > -- Rick Jaffe Research Data Management Consulting UC Berkeley Library / Research IT researchdata.berkeley.edu/consulting researchdata@berkeley.edu / rjaffe@berkeley.edu phone: 510.642.0590 Schedule an appointment <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/selfsched?sstoken=UU9xSHp1T1VYazIzfGRlZmF1bHR8ZWZhNDJiNDhlYTE5OTkxMjQ1ZDczZjU3ODNiYmZlNmE>