+Believer Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 Is there a list of the oldest active caches? Quote Link to comment
+barefootjeff Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 15 minutes ago, Believer said: Is there a list of the oldest active caches? You can just do a search with no filters selected and sort the results by Placed date. It looks like these are the earliest screenful: 2 1 Quote Link to comment
+JL_HSTRE Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 There are a number of public bookmark lists of old caches. Quote Link to comment
+GeoElmo6000 Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 I was wondering why the results said Mingo was placed in November, but then I remembered an Aussie showed their results :-) 5 Quote Link to comment
+Goldenwattle Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 12 hours ago, GeoElmo6000 said: I was wondering why the results said Mingo was placed in November, but then I remembered an Aussie showed their results :-) Not only Australians. That's how it is in the world outside of the USA. 5 1 Quote Link to comment
+Goldenwattle Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 22 hours ago, barefootjeff said: You can just do a search with no filters selected and sort the results by Placed date. It looks like these are the earliest screenful: I have found two of those. The Lane Cove one, and recently Europe's First. I took the train (Dart) from Dublin to Bray and walked to it. A trip done no doubt by many geocachers. 1 Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 19 hours ago, GeoElmo6000 said: I was wondering why the results said Mingo was placed in November, but then I remembered an Aussie showed their results :-) 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+Goldenwattle Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 1 hour ago, HHL said: Cough, cough...only European. But don't worry we who aren't in the USA or Europe are used to being forgotten. 1 Quote Link to comment
+GeoElmo6000 Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 2 hours ago, HHL said: You could draw that picture either way to make one group look like they’re doing it right and the other doing it wrong. We write our dates differently, it’s really no big deal. I label software files as year-month-day (today being 2023-09-18) in order for them to sort universally. 3 Quote Link to comment
+Goldenwattle Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 1 hour ago, GeoElmo6000 said: We write our dates differently, it’s really no big deal. It can be a big deal. I know someone who was involved in an international telecommunications link up between multiple countries. Everyone was linked up except one country (easy to guess) and this mucked it up. The person who told me this story rang the person in the USA who hadn't linked up and asked why not, as everyone else was ready to go and they were holding everyone up. "But it's not the day yet," was the reply. They were then strongly told off*, and told that everyone else found that this was the day, and they needed to get with the rest of the world. * I have heard this person telling off someone else, so I could almost hear it. 1 Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 (edited) 2 hours ago, Goldenwattle said: It can be a big deal. You know that MM-DD-YY and DD-MM-YY formats are confusing. In an international setting, use the ISO date format YYYY-MM-DD format instead. As a bonus, YYYY-MM-DD sorts properly when sorted alphabetically, unlike the other two formats. Edited September 18 by niraD typo 2 1 Quote Link to comment
+Goldenwattle Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 5 minutes ago, niraD said: date format YYYY-MM-YY I have always said that is the most logical. However, either day, month, year, or year, month, day can be easily worked out because of the year, and both versions flow in size. The story though is how I can remember being told it. Quote Link to comment
+thebruce0 Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 Most data storage keeps the Y, M, and D values accurate (thus sort properly wherever displayed); it's not good to store date fields as static text/values. It's really just the visual representation of date data that can be confusing across country borders. But that's why the visual naming convention is so important when it's not a matter of a system that displays it in localized date format (such as file names that are static). It's almost always the D/M values when both are <=12 that confuse people if the year is not displayed first. blargh. Quote Link to comment
+GeoElmo6000 Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 29 minutes ago, thebruce0 said: It's almost always the D/M values when both are <=12 that confuse people if the year is not displayed first. Right, I realized when the list of caches showed Beverly as being hidden in the 13th month of the year that I wasn't looking at the date format I was used to Quote Link to comment
+Clongo_Rongo Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 Project GC - has a search Quote Link to comment
+Goldenwattle Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 On 9/21/2023 at 7:14 AM, Clongo_Rongo said: Project GC - has a search I brought that up and I don't get any dates, and can't find how to add that row. Quote Link to comment
+Mermaid.Man Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 3 hours ago, Goldenwattle said: how to add that row. You just click the little drop-down arrow where it says 'add filter'. Quote Link to comment
+Goldenwattle Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 3 hours ago, Mermaid.Man said: You just click the little drop-down arrow where it says 'add filter'. Thanks, but I have been clicking on filter. I likely have the wrong page. Quote Link to comment
+Hynz Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 1 hour ago, Goldenwattle said: Thanks, but I have been clicking on filter. I likely have the wrong page. 5 hours ago, Mermaid.Man said: You just click the little drop-down arrow where it says 'add filter'. Quote Link to comment
+Goldenwattle Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 5 minutes ago, Hynz said: On what page, under which heading? Quote Link to comment
+Hynz Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 1 hour ago, Goldenwattle said: On what page, under which heading? https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapHiddenMonth under top-menu "Tools" Quote Link to comment
+Goldenwattle Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 Thank you. However, I don't see that. 1 Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 25 minutes ago, Goldenwattle said: Thank you. However, I don't see that. Select: Map - Hidden Month (NOT Hidden Date) Quote Link to comment
+Goldenwattle Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 That's my dyslexia. I didn't read it was different. Giving up, but thankyou for helping. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+sahan Posted Saturday at 04:16 AM Share Posted Saturday at 04:16 AM On 9/16/2023 at 6:35 PM, Believer said: Is there a list of the oldest active caches? Yes, a local cacher made a PowerPoint presentation about the oldest caches, I will attach some screenshots below. Quote Link to comment
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