Hi, I'm not sure if this a bug, or merely an observation, but I think it's worth noting.
A colleague drew my attention to a reader who, according to the circulation history tab on their patron record, returned 5 books at one of our self-service stations at 2am this morning. The problem being we close at 10pm. Nobody thinks the reader broke into the library specifically to return overdue books. The more mundane solution was that somehow, the clock on the self-service station PC was set 12 hours fast. Looking at the circulation log, the books were returned at 2pm yesterday. Querying the statistics table for the reader's borrower number also comes up with books being returned yesterday at 2pm. Doing the same for the old_issues table comes up the books being returned at 2am this morning. So it's possible for the statistics and old_issues tables to show different return dates on books; statistics datetime seems to come from the Koha server, but old_issues returndate seems to come from the date/time on the local machine. The reader's books were overdue, but we have a one day grace period before fines are incurred - these fines come from the books being returned today at 2am after being due on the 11th - so fine information seems to come from the return date on the local machine. I am a humble librarian who may be completely wrong about this, but shouldn't the return date on both tables come from the same place and fines be generated from the server time, not the local machine? Kind regards, David Hughes Systems Librarian Dublin Business School 13-14 Aungier St. Dublin 2 Ireland 00 353 1 417 8744 david.hug...@dbs.ie *http://library.dbs.ie <http://library.dbs-students.com/>* -- *Data Protection: *The protection of your data is important to us. Please see our Privacy Notice <https://www.dbs.ie/privacy-policy> for more information on how we handle your data. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha