Year-Only Birthdate

[Joy]

I noticed that if only the year in a birthdate is entered into the Author Info, the rest of the date defaults to January 1. There's a lot of authors who I only know the year of birth for, so it would be useful to be able enter the year without the month and day. Would this be very difficult to implement?

[Otis, Chief Architect]

Hi Aughadan,

A great idea, but unfortunately not easy to implement given how we store the data. We'll shelf it for a rainy day though!

[Joy]

Okay, then. Thanks!

[Sandy]

Would the guidance then be it's better not to enter a date unless you have the full one (since it shows Jan 1 by default)?

[Cyn]

Sandy, I put that information in the description. That way it isn't lost. That's where I put the AKA information, too, until we get that feature.

[Sandy]

Ah, good idea. Thanks!

[Stan]

I guess the rainy day never came? Birth years are great for disambiguation, but it is confusing to default to January 1. I guess I'll go back and put Alan Carter's birth year in his bio, instead of in the date field.