[Babase] Re: Agnonisim and grooming errors
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Thu Mar 15 12:43:04 EDT 2007
On 03/15/2007 10:55:39 AM, Susan Alberts wrote:
> I suspect, just based on what the data looked like, that even though
> the rule was to just enter first of the month for all data, the rule
> was not always followed....
> Two is to force the dates to the 1st prior to some reasonable date.
>
> On the whole I like option 2 with the caveat that we probably cannot
> get a very good exact answer to this and we should not try. We should
> use the data to guide us to a reasonable date and go with that.
My thoughts run along the same lines. Having in mind that
it'd sure be nice to have actual dates, if there are large blocks
of time during which the dates were not forced to the first
of the month we could leave these as-is. In other words,
we're not restricted to saying that "everything before
date X is on the first". We could be more flexable if
that makes sense.
This is not a terribly difficult problem, we just need
to know what we're doing.
An incomplete thought: The user will need to be concerned
with this issue to some extent (right?) because the psion data
is always to-the-day. ... I guess no matter what
the user will have to think about it because
of the way the data's been entered.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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