[Babase] Matured Dates after Statdate

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Wed Nov 15 16:29:23 EST 2006


PS, in other words, I don't think we want to change the rule that  
says that nothing can happen to an animal after its statdate. I think  
if we have clear evidence that something happened to an animal after  
its statdate then it isn't a real statdate.

S

On Nov 13, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Leah Gerber wrote:

> Karl and Susan,
>
> I just wanted to check to see if we had made a final decision on  
> whether matured "by" dates could be after statdates. For dispersed  
> dates this is allowed but I thought we had decided it would not be  
> allowed for matured dates. Tabby has a couple of outstanding  
> conversion errors for which this occurs.  The options are:
>
> 1. allow this to occur (like for dispersed dates)
> 2. change the date to the statdate
> 3. delete the date
>
> I think the answer needs to be explicitly stated in the documentation.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leah
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Susan Alberts, Dept. Biology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708. Phone  
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