Author: John Merlino
Date: 09:37:43 11/30/00
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On November 30, 2000 at 04:52:59, David Dahlem wrote: >The new Chessmaster 8000 saves pgn files with the following date tag - >[Date "11-29-2000"] >According to the pgn standard, this is incorrect. Following is the correct date >tag format taken from the pgn standard text file. > >Examples: >[Date "1992.08.31"] >[Date "1993.??.??"] >[Date "2001.01.01"] > >8.1.1.3: The Date tag > >The Date tag value gives the starting date for the game. The date is given with >respect to the local time of the site given in the Event tag. The Date tag >value field always uses a standard ten character format: "YYYY.MM.DD". The >first four characters are digits that give the year, the next character is a >period, the next two characters are digits that give the month, the next >character is a period, and the final two characters are digits that give the day >of the month. If the any of the digit fields are not known, then question marks >are used in place of the digits. Amazingly enough, this is the first time that anybody has reported this bug in ANY version of Chessmaster to my knowledge. I will tell the development team, and I'm pretty confident it will be fixed in the patch. jm
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