Re: [libdb-develop] [feature] Date Ranges and Database Manipulations

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

>>> :-) .. it seems to be there are many more important
>>> intricacies to work out with dates (at least for me!), like:
>>> A magazine issued in "November/December", or "Spring."
>>
>I wonder if the November/December thing could be thought of as two
>linked dates of a kind "composite"?  Another might be "range"?  You can
>imagine a range of years, too.  Just thinking out loud...

Well - yes, both dates could be marked up as a range:

 [2004-11-01 2004-12-31]
 [2004-04-01 2004-07-31] (or whatever Summer is. I dunno).

but those representations are very strictly "meant for computers"
and not representative of the item itself. Of course, you could
go nuts and have the above, plus date_text, which would be the
"as shown on the item" date ("November/December", "Spring", etc.).

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