Heidrun said:
>My reasoning goes as follows: You do not have to supply the date,
>because in fact you know the year. The only problem is that it is
>written on the source of information in some kind of shorthand.
It does not matter to me, or patrons I suspect, whether one uses
$c[19]61. $c[1961] or $c1961. It *is* important that the whole year
be there, since one should not have to wait for a note to know whether
it is 1761, 1861, or 1961. A little pragmatism is in order here! To
transcribe "'61" as opposed to recording the whole year serves no
purpose.
For the rule bound, as Heidrun points out, this is a not a transcribed
element. One does however normally bracket data not in the source.
e.g., imprint year when inferred from the copyright year, even though
the latter is in the source.
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