On 2009/02/24, at 10:01 PM, Ian Bays wrote:
Hi, the item mapping document referenced below is essential for mapping the 952 tag. However I have an observation and question about the date formats. The document says the date format entered in the 952 subfields depends on the system preferences:
"* Dates formats are controlled by the system preferences (Administration – Global system preferences – 118N/L10N – dateformat). Three date formats are available:
US - mm/dd/yyyy Metric - dd/mm/yyy ISO - yyyy/mm/dd) "
The question is: Can anyone confirm whether the dates entered in the 952 subfields should really be in the YYYY-MM-DD format and if not can you shine any light on the observations above.
Many thanks.
Ian
Hiya Ian The date format stored in the db, and the date format within Koha internally is always expected to be 'YYYY-MM-DD' afaik. The 'dateformat' syspref determines the input and output formats of dates. Hope that helps. Mason.