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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 6 Feb 2026 21:59:01 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver"    
   wrote:   
      
   >FWIW I record such events, if in plain text, as e. g. 1960Q2; in the   
   >software I use (Brother's Keeper), which doesn't "know about" quarters,   
   >I enter just the year, with Q2 in the comment field for that event.   
      
   I record events in the 2nd Quarters as "about May yyyy".   
      
   That will sort correctly before or after events in other quarters of   
   the same year, and has roughly a 1 in 3 chance of being right.   
      
      
      
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