Can date parser be disabled for fiction writer

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On the Gramps subreddit, a fiction writer wants to use all text dates. (The calendar does not correspond to Earth years or months.)

They have been trying to use the text dates. But sometimes the date parser gets ahold of something it recognizes and fights being used that way.

Is there a way to hack either the date parser or the event editor to disable parsing?

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They could add a prefix to the date string to ensure it is not parsable:

VENUS: 2,005,765,099.6532
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Interesting! (Thanks) I think I’ll offer a SciFi example in my response: Stardate 41254.7

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Note that that same person on Reddit was attempting to use a text date and shares

I thought that using the text only option would work, but it just does not accept a lot of my input. For example, I type in "(era) 1", that shows up; but if I edit it to be something like “(era) 1, (season name)”, it does not save it and deletes it to be just “(era) 1” the moment I click “OK”.

and uncovered the following issue Confirmed by @daleathan :

So at the moment while prefixing with Stardate or VENUS will work for the initial entry the moment they attempt to edit that entry Gramps silently fails with no error and loses the change !

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So is the parser what’s getting in the way?

Does it come back to a hack to bypass the Parser again?