[Babase] Auto mdates - for Jeanne and Karl

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Fri Jun 2 17:33:43 EDT 2006


On 06/02/2006 02:40:21 PM, Catherine Markham wrote:
> 
> If you look at time interval between an automatically generated mdate  
> and the following tdate of that same cycle, you get a range extending  
> from 0 days (that part makes sense) all the way up to over 250 days  
> (yikes - seems really long).
> 
> Jeanne, when you get a chance: I'm assuming 250 days is a red flag.   
> I can look into the records more carefully and try and figure out  
> whether we missed coding a gap in monitoring or if the cycle data are  
> otherwise incomplete.  But first I need to know above what interval  
> length I should be concerned with.  Is, say, less than 60 days  
> probably an acceptable interval between mdate and tdate but 61 or  
> greater something to investigate?  70 days?  50 days?  I'm just  
> pretty clueless as to what the "norm" might be.

The other possiblity is that I did not get the gaps into the db right,
so that's something else to check.

> On a slightly different note, I've done some other checking and it  
> looks like the mdates are indeed being generated following the basic  
> documentation rules.  I'll keep playing around with it, though.   
> Karl, I'll give you a head's up when I think I've exhausted all the  
> checks I can think of.  So far, so good, though!!

I need to double check the rules and the code, but I'm thinking I need
to ensure that there's no automatic Mdates after the individual dies.
It's been lurking on my todo list.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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