Hi Julia, In DSpace, an embargo is a "start date" for an access policy. So, essentially, it should be the date that you want the policy to first take effect.
So, if you wanted to embargo an Item until August 8 (i.e. the policy should start on that date), then you should just set August 8 in the "Bulk Access Management" tool. One thing to keep in mind though is that DSpace stores all dates as UTC internally (in the database). So, selecting August 8 really means the policy will start on August 8 UTC Time (which is different from your local timezone). Based on your question about setting the date one day *later*, it is also possible you are seeing this buggy behavior: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/10119 I *believe* that is now fixed, but it wasn't fixed until 9.0 (because it required switching to different date libraries, which was a massive codebase change) Tim On Thursday, July 17, 2025 at 3:58:04 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > Hello all! > > I apologize for this fairly basic question (and especially if it has been > answered here before) but if I want an Item to become publicly available on > August 8, do I actually need to select August 9 from the date picker in the > Start Date section of the Edit Resource Policy page and the 'Grant access > from' section in the Bulk Access Management tool in order for DSpace to > 'convert' that date to August 8th (one day earlier) on the Authorizations > page and apply READ: Anonymous on the 8th? > > I'm putting together some student training materials and the way the > embargo 'start' date is described is somewhat confusing: > https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Embargo#Embargo-DSpaceEmbargoFunctionality > > Thanks as always for any guidance or confirmation :) > > Julia > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/78e5faa1-9aa2-45f4-a8b7-a028563e173cn%40googlegroups.com.
