@dsblank posted in Dev about the support of more calendars. I haven’t really used any other calendars like the Julian because I don’t know how to make it work in my workflow.
For documents (England) prior to 1750, if I can read the original document, I can figure out if the Julian calendar is being quoted in the transcription. If it is I change it to the date to Gregorian calendar. Sometimes there are two documents with dates one year apart. Confusing.
I know I can enter the Julian and pick it in the editor, but how does this affect other things such as searches or reports. Sorry, I haven’t taken the time to experiment. How does this affect how you use this feature? What are the issues you need to know about?
The process works this way: you enter a date in the calendar of your choice, and that gets converted to a standard, unified format stored in a Gramps date field. So the calendar used doesn’t effect anything else except how that date is entered and displayed.
I suggest to record the date as it is in the source. Let do Gramps do the conversion instead of doing it by yourself.
Yes, that could happen. There was a time when the new year starts at Easter, not at January, 1st. So some sources say for example an event was at February, 15 in 1648, some say it was already 1649. GEDCOM allows you to store that as a dual date: 15 FEB 1648/49. I don’t know if Gramps supports dual years.
In older church books I often see the date as e.g. “Misericordia Domini” or abbreviated as “Dom: Miseri:”. For these dates I look them up on a calendar web page.
Would it be possible to have such church calendar in the Gramps calendar function?
In my opinion, it seems like building up a list of special times and dates would be a never-ending project. Wouldn’t be better to just search the internet?