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Date format

Standard format

A date has the format day.month.year , where day , month, and year are entered numerically. Missing leading zeros in the day and month are added automatically. The year can range from 1 to 2047. A date can be preceded by "before ," "after ," or " around ." The complete date can also be further qualified by a preceding "v" for "presumably , " "?" for " questionable ," or "e" for " calculated ."

When using um dates, you can use the time intervals that Omega assumes for plausibility checks of such imprecise dates as a guide.

In all combinations, where appropriate, the day, day and month, or day, month, and year can be omitted. A special case arises from the option to enter 0 for the month: in outputs, two spaces will then appear instead of the month.

Examples:

input	appears as	comment
April 12, 1846	April 12, 1846	exact date
25.12.800	December 25, 800	exact date
around 1645	around 1645	estimate
after 4.10.1687	after 04.10.1687	Narrowing down is possible
before 51602	before 05.1602	limited to before May 1602
1945	1945	in 1945
e 1776	e 1776	calculated 1776
v 1.2.1767	v 01.02.1767	probably 1.2.1767
31.1.1823	31.01.1823	Date uncertain
v before 1792	v before 1792	probably before 1792
? after 12.2.1588	? after 12.02.1588	possibly after February 12, 1588
27.0.1801	27. 1801	27th of ... in the year 1801
v	v	presumably in (location should be specified)
?	?	possibly in (location should be specified)

It is not possible to specify times or days.

Abbreviated format

To save typing time when entering dates, you can omit the periods. Please note that in this case, the year must always be entered as four digits and the month as two digits, possibly with leading zeros to avoid ambiguities.

Examples:

long input	short input	comment
5.1645	51645	Standard case, savings
after 14.10.1687	after 14101687	Standard case, savings
February 11, 1846	11021846	Entering zero is mandatory.
December 1, 1846	1121846	compare the example above
12,800	120800	Entering zero is mandatory.
1.2.1767	1021767	Entering zero is mandatory.
12.1767	121767	compare the example above

Republican Calendar

Dates from the French Republican calendar must be converted to the Gregorian calendar. Omega assists you with this through the Republican Calendar function. You can access this function by pressing Alt+R while entering a date in a date field. The selected date will be inserted into the date field after closing the window.