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Date stories
User can manually add a date or span of dates to an object, procedural, or organizational record
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Sysadmin can set the default calendar system (e.g. Gregorian, Julian)
Sysadmin can specify the parameters of an estimated date (e.g. early 19th century = 1801-1833)
Time stories
User can manually add a time or range of times to an object, procedural, or organizational record
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Do we want to restrict the formatting of entered dates, e.g. YYYYMMDD, or will CSpace validate & convert to ISO-standard format? Nice phrasing from the services description: This behavior generally confirms with Jon Postel's maxummaxim, "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send."