Nomansland Date input

Date Formats

Nomansland date fields can accept a variety of date formats in string and compute and save a range of dates based on the input.

When entering a string date, a hint is shown to the user so they know what date value is interpreted from the input.

ISO Dates

Format	Input	From	To
Year-Month-Date	1904-11-25	Nov. 25, 1904	Nov. 25, 1904
Year-Month	1904-11	Nov. 1, 1904	Nov. 30, 1904
Year	1904	Jan. 1, 1904	Dec. 31, 1904
Century	11c	Jan. 1, 1000	Dec. 31, 1099

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Hijri Dates (in AH and BH)

Format	Input	From	To
Hijri date	700-01-02 AH	Sept. 17, 1300	Sept. 17, 1300
Hijri year-month	700-01 AH	Sept. 16, 1300	Oct. 14, 1300
Hijri year	300 BH	July 6, 0330	June 24, 0331
Hijri century	8c AH	Sept. 16, 1300	Sept. 23, 1397

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Before, After, Not Before, Not After (Available for all above date formats)

Condition	Input	From	To
before	before 2000	None	Dec. 31, 1999
not before	not before 2000	Jan. 1, 2000	None
after	after 2000	Jan. 1, 2001	None
not after	not after 2000	None	Dec. 31, 2000

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Date Ranges (date1 - date2)

Description	Input	From	To
date range	300 AH - 18c	Aug. 18, 0912	Dec. 31, 1799
date range	11c - 1980-11-20	Jan. 1, 1000	Nov. 20, 1980
date range	12c - 15c	Jan. 1, 1100	Dec. 31, 1499

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TO BE IMPLEMENTED

These input formats are already supported. Date interval will be automatically updated when the feature is deployed.

BCE Dates

Format	Input
Century BC	8c BC
Year BC	300 BC
Year-Month BC	900-01 BC
Year-Month-Date BC	858-03-04 BC

Circa, Flourish, etc. (to be implemented, data can be input in this format)

Description	Input	From	To
c. century (c. makes no difference)	c. 11c	Jan. 1, 1000	Dec. 31, 1099
c. year, month, date (± 10 years)	c. 1987	Jan. 1, 1977	Dec. 31, 1997
fl. century (fl. makes no difference)	fl. 11c	Jan. 1, 1000	Dec. 31, 1099
fl. year, month, date (± 10 years)	fl. 1987	Jan. 1, 1967	Dec. 31, 2007