[Koha-bugs] [Bug 24674] Uncertain years for publicationyear/copyrightdate -- corrected

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24674

--- Comment #8 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> ---
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.

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