Calendar support - I don't know how to make it work in my workflow

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Version 6 on Windows 11

@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?

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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.

Does that help?

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Thanks, I’ll try it when I have to enter Julian date.