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[nycphp-talk] handling vague dates.

joshmccormack at travelersdiary.com joshmccormack at travelersdiary.com
Wed Oct 1 13:31:00 EDT 2003


How about adding a column for date modifiers with options like "on date or within next 15 days" or something, and then change the oddballs to regular dates (search and replace) and just have entries in the date modifiers column for them?

Josh

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, David Vogel wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I have a small batch of dates that I'd like to get into a db.  Almost
> all of them are specific, eg October 1.  However, a few refer to things
> that happen around a certain time.  For example students' "Housing bill
> for spring semester due" is listed as 'Early January'.
> 
> So, I'm not sure how to set up the db to accomodate the oddballs.  Any
> suggestions would be much appreciated.
> 
> thanks,
> Dave
> 
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