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Subject: Re: CM 8000 pgn date tag

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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