[Koha] Publication dates in Koha

[Nicole Engard]

Robin,

I have searched my DB and I do have clean records with dates in the
fixed fields, but copydate is empty in my DB.  That's why someone has
said it was a unimarc thing ... ideas?

Nicole

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Robin Sheat <robin at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
> Nicole Engard schreef op wo 02-05-2012 om 19:48 [-0700]:
>> Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression
>> that the first was for Marc21 and the latter for Unimarc dates. And
>> that this data came from the 260.
>
> It's much more complicated than that. copydate is in a control field, I
> forget which right now, as a fixed-length set of digits. pubdate is in
> 260$c and is often irregularly formatted.
>
> If you have good clean records, copydate is better, but in real life
> what we often do is point copydate in zebra to 260$c and polish them up
> a bit.
>
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