Comment 7 for bug 683953

Hi,
Marisa informed me she did about 75 of those last night. I will start on
those tomorrow. She also said she has done many serials like that in the
past with no problems.

Thanks,
Jeff

> Yuck, a whole bunch more of Marisa's modify_xml tasks ran after we
> started this discussion (they'd already been submitted, but were held up
> by the catalog backlog until last night). We still have all these with
> invalid dates:
>
> http://www.us.archive.org/metamgr.php?&srt=updated&ord=desc&w_date=*-*&w_identifier=classschedul*&fs_date=on&fs_identifier=on&fs_mediatype=on&fs_format=on&fs_collection=on&fs_curatestate=on&fs_noindex=on&off=0&lim=25
>
> And Jeff, when making changes like this, can you please use
> modify_xml.php instead of editxml, so that the task history shows the
> changes?
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
> 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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