On 1/21/08, Angus McLellan angusmclellan@gmail.com wrote:
Even wikimarkup has the same problem of failing to handle imprecise dates correctly based on user preferences unless they are spelled out in full: "... born between [[23 April]] [[1141]] and [[24 May]] [[1141]]....". But who considers the data that fields might hold when designing templates? And why would dates ever be imprecise?
A meta-template approach would be ideal for handling afterthoughts such as this. For this particular problem, {{birth date and age}} and related templates could be modified to gracefully handle ranges or approximate time frames in the less common case where the exact date isn't known to us.
—C.W.