japanese: First two hieroglyphs are name of emperor. In this case it is Shōwa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito). His reign started in 1926. So 54-th year of reign will be 1925+54 = 1979. This is a year of coin.
1925 instead of 1926 is used because 1926 is a not zero, but first year reigning.

Article about manual years calculations is still in progres. I hope I will finish it in nearest time.

Thank you for reply. You help me a lot today!!!

japanese: First two hieroglyphs are name of emperor. In this case it is Shōwa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito). His reign started in 1926. So 54-th year of reign will be 1925+54 = 1979. This is a year of coin.
1925 instead of 1926 is used because 1926 is a not zero, but first year reigning.

Article about manual years calculations is still in progres. I hope I will finish it in nearest time.

japanese: At this moment — no. I'm planning to implement this feature in nearest time.

This will be great! But, I want to write down correct year in my coins list now... Can you provide me calculation rules for Japanese dates? I'm not sure that I'm correctly understand how it should really to be.

japanese: At this moment — no. I'm planning to implement this feature in nearest time.

There is Japanese coin with Arabic numbers. Is it possible to use Dates Calculator with such dates and how?

LeZouave: No probs.

Thanks Jim. I will try your suggestion. It's a better way of getting round this problem. Thanks again.

LeZouave, in such cases I'm doing following:
1) Select just date in current year (day & month)
2) When month calendar is CLOSED you can select year in edit line (it will be 2008, current year of course) and change year with keyboard arrows (up & down) or just enter date manually. This is the fastest method I know.

Maybe developers will show us something faster but I'm unsure…

Can the back-scrolling of the calender for Income Date be made faster? The majority of my stamps were purchased in the 1960's and it is very tedious and annoying to do it so slowly by holding the left button of the mouse. Can you help?

Yes, it is possible to track cigpacks in Collection Studio with custom collectible feature. And it is not a problem that there is no selection of the "Cigarettes" collectible type in the "New" dialog. Later, all "standard" collectibles will be just simple custom collectibles but with predefined list of fields and with predefined thematic statistics views. So, you will have an ability to create and to track a new cigpacks collection (or just another thematic list) with several clicks without adjustment of the same fields.