Date published

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

This was brought up in another thread, but had to do with original date published. How is it that this book continues to carry a Persian date and yet the original date carries the correct Gregorian date?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

And how is it that a Persian date is retained at all when the policy is to use Gregorian dates?

[Philip]

No idea, it was done by a GR employee, so I think it needs flagged or sent to support.

[Arenda]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "How is it that this book continues to carry a Persian date and yet the original date carries the correct Gregorian date?"

The original date will likely revert back to the Persian date when someone changes something / combines an edition.

[Philip]

that is why I suggesting flagging or sending to support.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

The original publication date was changed yesterday by a GR employee.

[Arenda]

Philip wrote: "No idea, it was done by a GR employee, so I think it needs flagged or sent to support."

I flagged it yesterday and added a link to the librarian manual about the publication year.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Arenda wrote: "Philip wrote: "No idea, it was done by a GR employee, so I think it needs flagged or sent to support."

I flagged it yesterday and added a link to the librarian manual about the publication year."

And it was after that the original publication date was changed by a GR employee. My question here is why is that sticking when you or I change it it reverts to the Persian date. Does GR staff have a magic wand?

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Let me add that I don't really care whether or not a book in Arabic carries a Persian date. I even think it could be considered appropriate, and if the system has been enabled to allow it without changing the Gregorian original publication date this is an enhancement.

[lethe]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Let me add that I don't really care whether or not a book in Arabic carries a Persian date. I even think it could be considered appropriate, and if the system has been enabled to allow it without changing the Gregorian original publication date this is an enhancement."

Yes, but what about a Persian original being translated into other languages? Should the original pub date then be the Persian one?

Not a good idea, in my opinion, way too confusing. We should stick to one system, i.e. the Gregorian calendar.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

lethe wrote: "We should stick to one system, i.e. the Gregorian calendar. "

Then it should work as advertised, which in this case it isn't.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Arenda wrote: "The original date will likely revert back to the Persian date when someone changes something / combines an edition. "

OK, so I edited an edition moving edition information from the title to the Edition field. The original publication date remains 2005, which is correct. So again, I ask - do GR employees have a way of overriding what we think of as the way the system works? ie, date of oldest dated edition becomes original publication date when it is older than a user-added date?

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