Robin, I have searched my DB and I do have clean records with dates in the fixed fields, but copydate is empty in my DB. That's why someone has said it was a unimarc thing ... ideas?
Nicole On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Robin Sheat <[email protected]> wrote: > Nicole Engard schreef op wo 02-05-2012 om 19:48 [-0700]: >> Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression >> that the first was for Marc21 and the latter for Unimarc dates. And >> that this data came from the 260. > > It's much more complicated than that. copydate is in a control field, I > forget which right now, as a fixed-length set of digits. pubdate is in > 260$c and is often irregularly formatted. > > If you have good clean records, copydate is better, but in real life > what we often do is point copydate in zebra to 260$c and polish them up > a bit. > > -- > Robin Sheat > Catalyst IT Ltd. > ✆ +64 4 803 2204 > GPG: 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
