[Koha-bugs] [Bug 4462] Sort By Publication Date Does Not Work

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http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4462


Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
          Component|OPAC                        |Searching
         OS/Version|Windows NT                  |All
           Platform|PC                          |All
         Resolution|                            |WORKSFORME
            Version|rel_3_2                     |HEAD




--- Comment #2 from Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org>  2010-05-07 14:01:23 ---
Sorting in both the OPAC and the staff client is handled by Zebra, so you have
to look at what Zebra's criteria are for various sorting schemes. The default
Zebra configuration scheme defines "Publication date" as the data in MARC21 tag
008, positions 7-10. For example:

080605s2008 ctua e b 001 0 eng d

2008 is the date Zebra will use when sorting by publication date. This can be
confusing when the data in the 260 tag ("Publisher: Twentieth Century Fox Home
Video, c1999.") differs from what's in the 008.

My test shows accurate sorting based on 008, despite the publication date
displayed on screen.


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