[Koha-devel] non-simple publication years?

[Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso]

I think that's a matter of representation, so database structure could be as 
is (with that sort integer) and scripts could be modified to support 
different dating standards simply making conversions. Although I think this 
does need change some scripts, not just templates, because as it seems to be 
your case, sometimes the matter is an input value on a form.

The same is applicable to date formats on different countries or using 
different standards. (i.e. some countries use DD-MM-AAAA while others use 
MM-DD-AAAA). I think there may be some kind of support for this in koha so it 
should be not very difficult to adapt it for your chinesse years, but I'm not 
sure.



On Wednesday 04 December 2002 19:22, Ambrose Li [CCCGT] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if some other library places a non-simple value in
> the publication year field.
>
> Here we occasionally place things like "2000 [民89]" in the
> year of publication field (book lists date of publication in
> "Republic" date year 89, equivalent to A.D. 2000; we record
> both). biblio.copyrightdate is a smallint, which makes sense
> but won't exactly work in our case. I wonder what is the
> correct way to do this.
>
> Regards,