Hi Stuart Thanks for this detailed explanation.
I'm using the source for DSpace 1.6.2 because of the custom ldap special groups code. Maybe the fix missed out on reaching the 1.6.2 source distribution?? Best wishes Clive Sent from my iPhone On 7 Aug 2010, at 20:35, Stuart Lewis <s.le...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > Hi Clive, > >> 2) I then stopped tomcat, and modified the line you mentioned in >> dspace.cfg as follows: >> >> webui.itemdisplay.default = dc.title, dc.title.alternative, >> dc.contributor.*, \ >> dc.subject, dc.date.issued, dc.publisher, \ >> dc.identifier.citation, >> dc.relation.ispartofseries, \ >> dc.description.abstract, dc.description, \ >> dc.identifier.govdoc, dc.identifier.uri >> (link), \ >> dc.identifier.isbn, dc.identifier.issn, \ >> dc.identifier.ismn, dc.identifier >> >> The full, unabridged issue date is now shown as you can see below: >> >> So what is it about (date) ??? > > Adding (date) to a field in that list tells DSpace that you want to > display the date as a data, rather than as the raw string that it > retrieves from the database in the 'simple item view'. Typically > this will involve stripping off the time, and, depending on the > original date you entered, displaying just the year, month and year, > or day month and year. So the suggestion to remove it was to check > that it was getting the correct data - not as a fix to the other > problems. We need to work out why the date isn't being > > The class that does this is DCDate.java, and we know this class has > a few issues and limitations in the way it does this, and we have > some open issues in our JIRA bug tracking system to look at this and > address it. > > I've had a quick look around our JIRA system, and there are some > other reports of the same problem, for example this one: > > - http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-469 > > However this suggests it was fixed in 1.6.1. Are you using the > source or binary distribution of DSpace 1.6.2? > > I'll try and find some time to big into this a bit further. > > Thanks, > > > Stuart Lewis > IT Innovations Analyst and Developer > Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library > Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand > Ph: +64 (0)9 373 7599 x81928 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
