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- Double Dates
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- On September 2, 1752, Great Britain and her colonies
- changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar by
- adding 11 days to the date. In the Julian calendar, March was the
- first month and February was the twelfth month. March 25th was
- New Year's Day. To help clarify the recording of dates from January
- 1st through March 25th, many people began using a double date
- system.
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- To help clarify this, we will use George Washington's
- birthday as an example. According to the Julian calendar,
- Washington was born on 11-Feb-1731. According to the Gregorian
- calendar, it was 22-Feb-1732. Washington might have recorded his
- birthdate using double dating as 11-Feb-1731/1732. The first year is
- the Julian year; the second year is the Gregorian year. Washington
- later adapted to the change by adding 11 days to his birthdate. This
- was a common solution to the problem.
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- Family Scrapbook allows you to record double dates by giving
- you an extra four digits in the date fields for the second year. If you
- do not need to record a double date, simply ignore the last four digits.
- A typical date field will look like this in the program:
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- DD-MMM-YYYY/YYYY
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- Note: Not all reports will print out double dates. Many
- reports will shorten the dates to the more familiar format, DD-
- MMM-YYYY.
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