Since Before/After/To/From dates all use the Limit Preference value, how do you prevent “?” substitutions for Places with name changes? Specifically, how do I specify a modern name when the last name change happened longer ago than 50 years? (I realize the boundaries are not equivalent in the foll…

[image] emyoulation: Since Before/After/To/From dates all use the Limit Preference value, how do you prevent “?” substitutions for Places with name changes? Date calculations in places use absolute ranges.

[image] Nick-Hall: Date calculations in places use absolute ranges. Okay. But how does one specify the “Republic of Iraq” example of “1958-present” ? The After/To default limit is 50 years. So “After 1958” only covers 1958-2008. And “from 1958 to today” is converted during entry into “from …

For places, we use Date.match_exact() which does not use the date limits.

Does that mean the “?” placename substitutions that I see in the GUI is a bug?

The question mark (?) appears when there is no viable option in the Name and Alternative name fields based upon the date of the event.There is a gap in the date structure set up by the user.

Can you maybe specify how to reproduce the behavior? I was only able to reproduce it by Add a place with a name with date range “after 1000” Add an event with no date and the created place Go to the events view: The place is ? This is probably because the event could lie before the range of the …

[image] levi: Add an event with no date and the created place Think of the event with no date displaying the event place as if the date was 1 Jan 0001. [image] levi: Add a place with a name with date range “after 1000” If a place name never changed over time, just because it was “sett…

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Nick-Hall August 13, 2025, 1:23pm 2

Date calculations in places use absolute ranges.

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