[Babase] Matured Dates after Statdate

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Wed Nov 15 16:28:36 EST 2006


I think that if we have a matured date that occurs after the  
statdate, the obvious inference is that the statdate is incorrect. I  
think we need to change the statdate. I am pretty sure that we made  
this decision, but I think it probably got lost in the shuffle.

Specifically, I recall that we realized that a lot of animals in  
proton's have an artificial statdate -- that in many cases we know  
they were around after the statdate because we saw them and have info  
on them. Eventually, in principle, we want to update all these  
statdates to reflect reality. In principle, we only need to do it now  
for the ones that are causing conversion errors.

So, make the statdate equal to the maturedate for now.

Susan

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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