[Koha-devel] question/problem with date

[Joshua Ferraro]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Galen Charlton
<galen.charlton at liblime.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>  On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at free.fr> wrote:
>   >  It seems that the C4::Dates::format_date function, has a small problem :
>  >  if the incoming date is 0000-00-00, then the result is : 02/00/0, which
>  >  is not really a date.
>  >  I think we should get a '' (nothing) in this case.
>
>  I think format_date should return "" or (better) undef in this case.
>  Right now it does print a warning, but as I recall it currently
>  doesn't return undef in order maintain backwards compatibility with
>  code that used C4::Date.
>
>  Doing this would require going through a lot of code that uses
>  format_date(), of course.  Also, I think we should remove usage of
>  "0000-00-00" to signify a unset date; this should be NULL in database
>  columns and undef in code.
I thought we had already removed all use of 0000-00-00, several months
ago. Paul, where are you seeing those kinds of non-date data?

Cheers,

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