Comment 10 for bug 683953

I thought I was replying directly to Jeff in my previous response. But since it's here, I should clarify a bit:

   * If invalid formats are entered via modify_xml, I think it would be helpful if the user was blocked from submitting or, more likely, a red-row generated. This way we would at least know there was a problem.
   * I'm actually not sure if it's possible to get a "master" list of all invalid date formats in all items. Looking closer at the link Hank provided, there is an easy way to get at least books which include a "-" in the date field. There are 126 found:

http://www.us.archive.org/metamgr.php?&srt=updated&ord=desc&w_date=*-*&w_mediatype=texts&w_collection=americana&w_sponsor=Brigham*Young*University&w_scanner=scribe1.provo.archive.org&w_repub_state=4%20or%20-1&fs_date=on&fs_identifier=on&fs_mediatype=on&fs_format=on&fs_collection=on&fs_sponsor=on&fs_scandate=on&fs_scanner=on&fs_curatestate=on&fs_repub_state=on&fs_size=on&fs_noindex=on&off=0&lim=25

There should probably be a project to find all invalid formats for other centers but I think there are ways to do it w/out Hank creating some master list like I suggested in my previous response.