Comment 5 for bug 683953

Hi Hank,
I was wondering about that. I will take out the second year. I did see
that the year showed up on the details page, and was hoping that worked,
but obviously it didn't.
Thanks,
Jeff

> No, still invalid - which is apparent if you use the search engine link
> above, which shows the field is still blank in the search engine index.
>
> All three items simply had the hyphens removed, leaving a date like
> "1930 1930," which does not match any of the three valid formats.
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683953
>
> Title:
> Invalid date information in items
>
> Status in Internet Archive - Tech Support:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> 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:
>
> "...The 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
> ..." - Hank
>
> (assigning bug to Jeff Sharpe)
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