Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 12:18:35 11/30/00
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On November 30, 2000 at 12:37:43, John Merlino wrote: >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 Opps, I noticed this awhile ago, but never really looked into what the problem was. :) JW
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