https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24674
--- Comment #10 from Janusz Kaczmarek <janus...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #8) > I am wondering if this could be confusing to users as we display the > information from publicationyear/copyrightdate in quite a lot of places. We > just recently looked into the logic here too: > > 1999- = 1999 > 1999-2009 = 1999 > 19xx (very common here) = NULL > > So the user will see the first "4 digits" as year when not looking at the > detail page. > > While publicationyear is text in the database (used by UNIMARC), > copyrightdate is a smallint(6) and can only store numeric values. I wonder > if we want or are treating both fields the same currently and if we should > be less restrictive for publicationyear? > > I'd love to get some more eyes on this - from the standard I think you are > right. It's just the issue of display that worries me a little. I get the point -- this is an important design question. I totally agree, this effect can be and is misleading for the users. But here I just wanted to get rid of the annoying errors in errorlog which are caused by the current version of the _adjust_pubyear function. (If it transforms [198-?] into 1980, it should do the same with [198-]. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list Koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/