Re: [Gnumed-devel] Date parsing in Postgres/GNUmed

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 01:31:06PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> >> and had not repainted the screen.
> > 
> > Given the above the question would be: Why would it ?
> 
> Because say my patient Julian Bashir actually had a date of birth of January 
> 11, 1986 which in Canada I would enter as
> 
>       11/1/86

So far that does not matter to GNUmed because it did not
know about that possibility. Hence there was no reason to
repaint.

> and which I would input as below (rejecting the auto-snap) and click save.

How can can you reject an *auto*-snap ?

>       1986-11-01
> 
> which would both allow the user to observe right away that
> this is not what they wanted. It also supports the good UI
> practice of consistency in how things are being displayed.

Hm. When I enter

        11/1/86

into either the cDatePickerCtrl or the cFuzzyTimestampInput
it seems quite consistent. So does the tooltip.

Karsten
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