[Koha-devel] Serial: numbering patterns: how to make it more clear that months and weekdays start from 0 ?

[Fridolin SOMERS]

Le 14/04/2019 à 15:04, Katrin Fischer a écrit :
> Hi Victor,
> 
> sorry for the late reply :) Ideally I think we should have 'fixed' it to
> not start with 0 but 1 when the feature was introduced, because it's
> counter intuitive to non-developers right now. But as the feature has
> existed like this for so long, I am not sure we should change it now,
> especially since we would have to update all existing patterns.
> 
> Maybe we could show a tooltip depending on the value selected in 
> Formatting?
> 
> Can you explain the problem with biannual? Is there a bug?
Not a real bug but its counter intuitive that 0=january and 13 also.
So numbering patterns may work by chance ^^.

> 
> Katrin
> 
> 
> On 20.02.19 15:38, Victor Grousset wrote:
>> Hi :) ,
>>
>> That might not be clear, even for developer, and even less for a
>> librarian.
>> How could this info be delivered reliably to the user?
>> To avoid running in circle during too long before realizing that?
>> Even more hard to understand when there are cases like biannual where
>> if you start from February, it will work even if you assumed that
>> January was 1.
>> But if you start from February, there will be issues after one year.
>>
>> Should there be tooltips? The related fields are marked with a red dot
>> in the following screenshot.
>>
>> https://framapic.org/4P2ZzbgJpuvA/SIleKzEuYVaG.png
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
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