[Koha-bugs] [Bug 8546] New: OPAC Advanced Search Publication date range guide text FAIL

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8546

          Priority: P5 - low
 Change sponsored?: ---
            Bug ID: 8546
          Assignee: oleonard at myacpl.org
           Summary: OPAC Advanced Search Publication date range guide text
                    FAIL
          Severity: trivial
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: All
          Reporter: m.kirjasto.hailuoto at gmail.com
          Hardware: All
            Status: NEW
           Version: unspecified
         Component: OPAC
           Product: Koha

Guide text in the advanced search form is incorrect: 

"For example: 1999-2001. You could also use "-1987" for everything published
before 1987 or "2008-" for everything published after 2008." is illogical. 

The logically and functionally correct way being: 
For example: 1999-2001. You could also use "-1987" for everything published
before 1988 or "2008-" for everything published after 2007.

Reproducing the bug: 
Search date range 2008- for "everything published _after_2008_" and you'll get
also books published 2008, not only after 2008. 
@
http://catalog.farmingtonlibraries.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl

This text bug prevails in community's demo runs 3.8, 3.6, 3.2 and master,
provided by Bywater, CALYX, Equinox, Libriotech, software.coop
http://koha-community.org/demo/
The four TOF demo Opacs on the list. 

Also in Bywater sandbox OPAC
http://catalog.bywatersolutions.com/
EVEN THOUGH text bug has been fixed in Bywater sandbox Intranet
(ver.3.09.00.026, whatever that would mean) (login bywater - bywater reqrd): 
http://intranet.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search.pl

Bug shows in live instances too, e.g. Farmington Koha, 
http://catalog.farmingtonlibraries.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl

Most likely in KOHA 3.10 too. 

FIX SUGEGSTION, that do not age along the years: like w Bywater 

format: yyyy-yyyy


PS.
All in all, when I "patron-eyed" Farmington Adv search, I started to miss guide
text feature. The advSearch page is so long. 
It could be shortened. Esp. the Item type list should be made drop-down type
and also divided into 2 or more categories: Item types and thematical types. Or
newest item types? Now the list doesn't work for, well, anybody. Schratching
here my head: some patrons could use this as an itemtype browsing feature.
(Well but this is now off-topic already.)

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