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When museum staff and other system users enter dates into new procedural records:
- They will typically be entering full calendar dates (e.g. 2010-08-22), not dates and times.
- A date picker, such as the Fluid date picker, can likely accommodate this.
- Combinations of dates and times (e.g. timestamps) will likely be used mostly for auditing, to identify when records are created or modified, rather than during data entry into procedural records.
- There will often be two dates that represent an implicit range, such as a start and end date for a loan or a conservation activity.
- Logic will need to understand that these ranges exist. Megan: "If I want to see all the items that were on loan last year [e.g. 2008], and I have an object that went out in 2006 and is due back in 2011, I want it to come up."
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