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Submitted by LundyFieldSociety on

I have been entering historic data ie pre 1970s via the import spreadsheet option.

All is ok with dates after c1970s, but earlier than that I get an error saying the date is in the future.

I get around this by inputting dates by hand.

Is this a known problem and is there another solution?

 

Submitted by LundyFieldSociety on Sat, 05/03/2022 - 16:34

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Further to the above.  This is inconsistent.  I have just entered records of two species.  One accepted all the dates, the other - in the same spreadsheet refused all dates from 1948 up to 1963.  The error message is "Please specify a date that is not in the  future" which it obviously isn't.

Can someon please look at this?

Submitted by DavidHowdon on Wed, 30/03/2022 - 21:40

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I wonder if this is a Unix thing.  I think in some Unix systems 1/1/1970 is 'day 1' and there is no time before that by default. 

Submitted by iRecord support on Mon, 30/05/2022 - 11:21

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I've not encountered this sort of problem with dates myself. Please can you send an example of your data to irecord@ceh.ac.uk and we can investigate.