[Koha] mapping data in Koha 3.0

[Mason James]

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.