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Subject: Re: CM 8000 pgn date tag

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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