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

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Aug 24, 2004, at 6:28 PM, Little Nemo wrote:

> One can't reasonably assume that a periodical/serial with a publication
> date of Nov/Dec actually took 2 months to produce, so why not simply
> assign the publication date as 2004-11-01?

Neither of these will work.  The above is clearly November 1, 2004; 
it's a specific day.  The below is clearly March 21, 2004; also a 
specific day.  This is a problem trying to match bibliographic dates to 
data models designed for banks.

I don't know the solution, but one is to throw out the date-datatying, 
and store it some other way.  There is one schema that represents 
seasons something like 2000-21.

> As for Spring, why not 2004-03-21 (assuming the publisher is in the
> Northern Hemisphere)?