[Koha-bugs] [Bug 24869] New: When Marc Record uses brackets in the publication Year the value is stored in the database as null

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24869

            Bug ID: 24869
           Summary: When Marc Record uses brackets in the publication Year
                    the value is stored in the database as null
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Cataloging
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: kelly at bywatersolutions.com
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: m.de.rooy at rijksmuseum.nl

For multiple reasons are < or [ used in cataloging dates that are either
unknown or with a range.

These are three examples that do not work or get stored properly in Koha and
the database.

[19--]

<1981->

[1981]

Currently, if a publication year has the hard brackets or the hungry alligators
with a year, the date does not get stored in the database as a value, but it
stored as null.  

It would be nice if Koha were to display the year regardless of the < or [ . 
If a year is presented like this [19--], Koha should use the value of the year
with 1900 in the database, and in a case such as this <1981->, it should be
1981.


The database holds these values as NULL.  When an item search in Koha is done
with a record with one of these values, the publication year will display as 0,
which is not helpful to a library when needing the publication date stored in
the Marc Record.

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