Date keeps reverting to 600 years earlier

[Kathy]

I'm having some trouble with Ernest Hemingway. (This would doubtless please him.)

This edition and several others of The Old Man and the Sea and A Moveable Feast show an "original publication date" of 1354. I change it in the edits page, save, and find on returning to the book record that it has changed right back to the incorrect date. What am I overlooking?

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

I think there is something with one of the data imports. I changed it wrong, realized it was wrong and changed it again. Let's see what happens!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

It has nothing to do with the imports, per se. (They were probably forcing resets to the first pub field, but that was only a problem because there was bad data.)

I edited the two editions that had pub dates from the Persian calendar.

[Moloch]

"The Alchimist" by P. Coelho has 1381 too.

[Sandra]

Moloch, one of the editions had 1381, I've removed it. Please put the correct date in now.

[Sean]

I changed the original publication date for A Moveable Feast from 1387 back to 1964 just not but looking at the edit history shows a steady tug of war over the date still.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Because you never fixed the problematic edition, which means almost every edit to any of the editions would cause it to go back to the earliest edition date listed.

I fixed the problem edition.