https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=36552

--- Comment #6 from Janusz Kaczmarek <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Marcel de Rooy from comment #5)
> (In reply to Janusz Kaczmarek from comment #0)
> > The 'date entered on file' (MARC21: 008/0-5, UNIMARC: 100a/0=7) of a record
> > created by duplication of an existing record should be set to the current
> > date instead of having the value of the original record.
> 
> Hi Janusz,
> Do you have any supporting information for this statement?

Hi Marcel,

Thank you for having a look at this.

I would say, this is just the cataloguers knowledge, common sense, and
interpretation of the term "date entered on file".

From https://loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd008a.html:

>>>>>

00-05 - Date entered on file

Computer-generated, six-character numeric string that indicates the date the
MARC record was created. Recorded in the pattern yymmdd.

Pattern yymmdd is yy for the year, mm for the month, and dd for the day. The
date entered on file in 008/00-05 is never changed. The date and time of latest
transaction information in field 005 changes each time a transaction is made to
the record. The latest transaction information enables an organization handling
more than one version of a record to identify the most current version. The
fill character (|) is not allowed in any of these positions. Field 008/00-05 is
usually system generated.

<<<<<

The logic is: If you are creating a record in Koha with the function "Edit as
new (duplicate)" it means, in fact, that you are creating a completely new
record, with no connection to the original one, except that you want to use it
as a template.  Hence it should have the current date in 008/0-5 (and
respectively 100 $a/0-7 in UNIMARC). 

Cataloguers I work with have asked for this since always and I put in in my
installations, now sharing this with the community. 

NB the phrase "The date entered on file in 008/00-05 is never changed" from
MARC 21 definition above should be, obviously, interpreted in respect to a
specific record and not to all records that somebody has created being inspired
by this record.  This would have no sense, IMVHO.

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