Comment 2 for bug 683953

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Jeff Sharpe (jeffs) wrote : Re: [Bug 683953] [NEW] Invalid date information in items

I changed these. should be fixed.
Jeff

> You have been assigned a bug task for a public bug by paul.n (paul-n):
>
> Three items from Provo --
>
> classschedule19291930brig
> classschedule19301931brig
> classschedule19311932brig
>
> had their date information changed from "1929" to a invalid date. This
> caused the item to have no date associated with it at all in the search
> engine.
>
> What to do:
>
> 1) Change the date to be valid (valid formats below)
> 2) Confirm that this change has been made by replying to this bug report
>
>
> For reference:
>
> he valid formats for date are:
> YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
>
> anything other than that in the date field (like YYYY-YYYY) is going to
> cause problems - like no value entered at all in the search engine
>
> in fact, that ("no value entered at all in the search engine") is
> exactly what has now happened with classschedule19301931brig. you can
> see here that the search engine now has a blank value for "date" for
> that item, because the value provided was in an invalid format:
>
> http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=identifier%3Aclassschedule19301931brig&fl[]=date&fl[]=identifier&output=tables
>
> (assigning bug to Jeff Sharpe)
>
> ** Affects: ia-techsupport
> Importance: Undecided
> Assignee: Jeff Sharpe (jeffs)
> Status: New
>
> --
> Invalid date information in items
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683953
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>