I thought that date field was first created for artists' birth and dead dates. Same field is used to date an event (composition, recording,...).
This field is designed for duration (from Day1 to Day2). Exclusively. If you want to enter a composition date, except exceptional cases, we don't know the day of the first note and the day of the last bar. Normally, we only know the year. Actually, we have to enter the same year in both field... meaning from YYYY to YYYY. For recordings, we could know the day, or the month of the year... For old compositions, it's more difficult to know exactly the composition year. Same as genealogy where we use ca. (*circa* or about), bef. (before) and aft. (after). If I enter only the second date for a composition... it is written "composed until YYYY" instead of before YYYY. If I enter only the first date... "composed from YYYY to present" instead of after YYYY. and obviously no way to indicate YYY1 or YYY2, or ca. YYYY It is minor... but sources of open discussions in edits.
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