{"id":52,"date":"2013-12-23T10:16:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eversholt.org.uk\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2013-12-23T10:16:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:16:23","slug":"birthdate-custom-readouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eversholt.org.uk\/blog\/birthdate-custom-readouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthdate Custom Readouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eversholt.org.uk\/birthdate\/\">birthdate calculator<\/a>\u00a0produces an earliest and latest possible birthdate from the limited information it has. This birthdate range can be stored in various genealogy and family history programs. However, the format needed to input a date into the various programs is very variable. So, it&#8217;s possible to customise the format produced by the birthdate calculator.<\/p>\n<p>If you touch the &#8216;Settings&#8217; button, editable panels appear for setting up the format of a date and the format of a &#8216;between-dates&#8217; explanation. You can use any mix of day, date, month, year, earliest date, latest date and fixed text. Once you have the date looking how you like, you can touch &#8216;Save Options&#8217; to store \u00a0those settings in the URL, and then you can bookmark that URL and come back to it when you need.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox seems to have a bug with editing the custom formats and needs an extra space at the end. I&#8217;m working on that. And, Safari is not terribly reliable at copying the birthdates to the clipboard. I&#8217;m working on that too \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Any other bugs? Post here and I&#8217;ll see what I can do.<\/p>\n<p>None of this has been tested with Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The birthdate calculator\u00a0produces an earliest and latest possible birthdate from the limited information it has. This birthdate range can be stored in various genealogy and family history programs. However, the format needed to input a date into the various programs is very variable. So, it&#8217;s possible to customise the format produced by the birthdate calculator. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdate"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eversholt.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eversholt.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eversholt.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eversholt.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eversholt.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eversholt.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.eversholt.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eversholt.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eversholt.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eversholt.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}