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A few blogs ago you said that a change was in hand to allow users to propose that forum items be tgreated as ‘Resolved’. Has this been done yet? II csannot see how to do it even though there is a heading ‘Resolved’.
Brian,
The resolve feature is available to registers members of the Wolfram|Alpha Community site. You must log-in to the site in order to view the resolve option. Once a member of the Community marks a topic as resolved, we are notified of this suggestion, and verify its status before moving the topic to the resolved category.
Thank you,
Thanks. I have been logged in but missed it loads of times. I was looking in the wrong places.
May I suggest to the developers in charge of astronomy that they immediately check wolfram’s lunar calendar. It completely misses out the full moon stage for many (not all) lunar cycles! (It is apparent when searching for various historical dates).
Your date formats do not include the US Military Date format ddmmmyy where mmm is the first three letters of the month namein English. On doing a Google there seems to be some debate about this but I first met this in IBM Manuals for data entry. It is very useful if the document may be read by both UK (DDMMYY)and US readers (MMDDYY)
There is this link suggesting it is the main one used by the US Military.
http://transnet.act.nato.int/WISE/NATOACTRes/AwardTempl/JSAMTempla/file/_WFS/JSAM%20Template.doc
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