Why can a date 12 October 1841 Not be interpreted ?

Question

The directive at death and birth is DD Month-YYYY  what is wrong with 12 October 1848 ?  I am only trying to find the correct format.--No spes profile --general .

Comments

An unnoticed extra space or some sort of punctuation between the Day and Month, or month and Year is the most common cause for cannot be interpreted.

You can edit what you entered, or simpler to delete the date and re-enter making sure not to add anything extra.

Answer 1

Your question heading is 1841 and the question is 1848.  Were you trying to change from one to the other on a profile?

Comments

Thanks for the response--I am not reffering to a spes profile--I get the note [ added to Birth or Death as --,on any date]- as "cannot be interpreted"    I use -as shown- DD month YYYY = Say 01 january 1900.A sample of the accepted  version "sal waardeer word."

Answer 2

12 Oct 1848

or

1848-10-12

Answer 3

The accepted formats are shown here Fanie:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Date_Fields

I think the software will expect to see a date exactly as shown in that list, and you'll need to be careful about where you have a hyphen, a period, an extra space, a lower case month name, etc., so double check your typing.

Answer 4

Sometimes date entries are rejected because there was an extra space at the beginning of the date field, or some similar format "error" that stymies a computer algorithm but is not detected by our human eyes.

Comments

Just to note that a computer algorithm should be perfectly capable of stripping spaces off both ends of what has been input, and interpreting multiple spaces as a single one in the middle. /^\s*(\d+)\s+(\w+)\s+(\d+)\s*$/.