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> Dan, > It's a deal. If we can solve the presented cases, we'll see if > we can have an official DC Date working group meeting in Bucharest, and > you can buy us all a round ;) Deal ! (Bucharest or not !) > Tricky cases: > a) sometimes I want to say: something happened during the x-y period > b) sometimes I want to say: something happened sometime between x and > y. > > I take this to mean that the period (which presumably has fixed > terminal points) encompasses the terminal points of an event, but one > or both of the event's span may be less than span between the period's > terminal points. Hmm... seems slighty different than approximate -- > sort of a soft terminal points problem. Might be a new category for us > to add to the list? Yes and yes. Examples: a) a novel was written between 1853 and 1856, i.e. started in 1853, finished in 1856 (with nice variations, such as 1853(?) and 1856); b) a person was born some day between July 12 and July 22 1853; not to mention: it took him 15 month to write the novel, sometime between 1853 and 1856 :-) > May we assume Dan would be good for a second round of beers if we > solved these too? ;) > Eric Sound assumption. Dan