From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
To: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
Cc: 36252@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 00:18:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51535.53516.186619.24525@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kkzl20d.fsf@yandex.com>
On Sun Dec 6 2020 Colin Baxter wrote:
> I am a heavy user of bibtex, but I am puzzled over the 'date'
> field. Publications have a 'year' ok, sometimes a 'month', but never
> have I seen a 'day'. So how would a user enter (YYYY-MM-DD)? Is it
> perhaps the date of entry of the record in to the file? Sorry to butt
> in, but I am curious.
ISO8601 permits dates like YYYY, YYYY-MM, and YYYY-MM-DD. I agree,
the last format is likely rare in the context of citations. This
smells to me as if internally biblatex relies on a canned library
handling iso8601 formats.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-07 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-16 20:23 bug#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field Ryan Kavanagh
2019-07-06 14:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-06 14:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-15 0:34 ` Ryan Kavanagh
2019-07-15 7:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-16 21:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-10 11:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-14 15:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-05 9:20 ` Patrick M. Niedzielski
2020-12-06 9:25 ` Colin Baxter
2020-12-07 6:18 ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2020-12-06 13:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-07 6:20 ` Roland Winkler
2020-12-07 15:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-11 15:04 ` Roland Winkler
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