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Update 18 Nov 2010: Sample screen shots will be added to this page to demonstrate how the prototype works.
2. Date In the current system date display text is sometimes more detailed than the date ranges.
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Action: Try to provide a means for users to enter month (and seasons) in a way which the current system does not.
3. CollectionSpace date format does not have room for some SMK date information. Action: We will store this data within the CS schema. 4. Representation of dates in the current system.
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Date timestamps (dateto and datefrom) stored in the current system are represented as integers, in such a way that 0 = 30.12.1899, 1 = 31.12.1899 etc. Recent dates have been staightforward to convert, but ancient dates have been more problematic. So far, the most successful method for converting these has been the Java Jodatime library (using its default ISO chronology). The JDT Calendar library resulted in errors (by insisting upon a Gregorian/Julian chronology which couldn't be properly reconfigured and didn't match the representation of our data). However, with dates pre 100AD we still have conversion problems and are awaiting input from the implementers of our current system.
54. Mapping to CollectionSpace date format.
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