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Is there some #genealogy software that does dates correctly?
E.g. user enters dates as recorded by authorities, but lets assume that a person moved from #Norway / #Denmark to Sweden in 1730. The records in #Norway / #Denmark would be in #GregorianCalendar, and the Swedish dates would be in #JulianCalendar. Assume that there are dates from the first decade of 1700s, when the #SwedishTransitionalCalendar was in operation and subsequently paused and abandoned, resulting in that February 30, 1712 is a valid date in #Sweden(!), and the other days being one day off from the Julian calendar.
Basically, all software seems to flag the date of 1712-02-30 as invalid, because it is impossible to specify the correct calendar.
And lets not get started about age calculations before new-year was moved to first of January (in many places this was well before the #Gregorian calendar introduction).