Memorable Dates

[bunn]

It's really annoying when you have to choose a 'memorable date' and the only options are in the 20th and 21st centuries.   I don't find those centuries particularly Memorable (as opposed to memorable, which is quite different) and I can never remember dates to the day of the month anyway, because I long ago decided that trying to remember and work out in my head which dates were from the Gregorian calendar, and which Julian calendar, and where the two swapped in various parts of the world was far to much work, so I always say gaily 'In June' or even better 'In the late spring of  1486'. That is Close Enough for Jazz, particularly when the person recording the date probably wrote it down wrong anyway.  

It's bad enough that you are never allowed to choose a date before 1000 because the systems always expect 4 digits. 

Comments

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I wonder if the Gregorian/Julian thing could explain the date discrepancy for the wreck of the White Ship in Witch's Brat...I'm not sure it could, though.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

ISTR that the discrepancy is long enough to cause headscratching but I think you said that the White Ship thing was the wrong *year* which seems a bit long to be a calendar glitch?

Though as I say, I long ago decided to put the the whole calendar thing on the Too Difficult pile so I could be wrong.

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

About a year and a month. Yeah, I think I looked into the calendar thing and discarded it as a possible explanation. I don't know much about the period, though!

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

I always think it must have been a nightmare in the German states, when Protestants used one calendar and Catholics another.

[ozisim.livejournal.com]

*tilts head*
why wouldn't you just put in 24/08/0079?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I spose you could try it, but I suspect either the validation won't accept it, or a dropdown won't offer zero as an option for the millennium.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

I have come across a PIN number that, by sheer chance, was a Memorable Date in the 19th century.

Though given that there are only two Memorable Dates in the whole of British History (and those devoid of day and month), I can see your problem.

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

I find the "memorable questions" even worse than the numbers. I get very confused about "best friend's name" and I don't HAVE a favourite colour. Drives me distracted.