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bug#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field
From: |
Roland Winkler |
Subject: |
bug#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field |
Date: |
Mon, 7 Dec 2020 00:18:55 -0600 |
On Sun Dec 6 2020 Colin Baxter wrote:
> I am a heavy user of bibtex, but I am puzzled over the 'date'
> field. Publications have a 'year' ok, sometimes a 'month', but never
> have I seen a 'day'. So how would a user enter (YYYY-MM-DD)? Is it
> perhaps the date of entry of the record in to the file? Sorry to butt
> in, but I am curious.
ISO8601 permits dates like YYYY, YYYY-MM, and YYYY-MM-DD. I agree,
the last format is likely rare in the context of citations. This
smells to me as if internally biblatex relies on a canned library
handling iso8601 formats.