Re: [PATCH] oc-basic: support biblatex date field

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

"Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com> writes:

> Can you please fix that, if the patchis otherwise fine?

OK.

> The biblatex manual (section 2.3.8 Date and Time Specifications), says
> the following:
>
> "Date fields such as the default data model dates date, origdate,
> eventdate, and urldate adhere to iso8601-2 Extended Format
> specification level 1."
>
> This is an extension to standard 8601 dates, previously known as EDTF
> (extended date-time format).
>
> So for the vast majority of cases, yes; the value would be standard 8601 
> dates.
>
> The exceptions should be very rare open-ended ranged dates; from table 3.
>
> ../1997
> /1997
>
> I do not, however, have a good knowledge of what people do in the
> wild. It just seems like such a critical data field should be
> supported.

I pushed a change along these lines in bugfix branch. Please let me know
if it works for you.

Thank you.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou