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Originally Posted by Pinecone
I normally don't bother with the dates, but recently DL'd a number of old books from Project Gutenburg. When getting metadata, a number of sources had metadata for a recently published version of the book. I would prefer to have the original publication date. But when I try to change that, it only allows one to use the calendar to pick the date.
A couple of problems, I don't know an exact date, just a Year. I see that some downloaded metadata only has a year or a month and year. But I cannot seem to do that in Calibre.
The BIG problem is, the currently set date is say 2010. The actual publication year is 1911. So a LOT of scrolling through the calendar to get to the proper year. I did find that you can click on the year and enter a different year and that helps.
And I found, that if you delete the date, the calendar decides to start from year 101.
Why can you not just type a date into the field? And why not allow just a Month and Year or even just a Year?
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You can. I must be in the locale format for your system. It must contain Month, day_number and 4 digit year
I use 1/1/1913 for when only the year (1913) is known.
Press F2, it will show the date in the expected EDIT format. Do not use the (down arrow) Calender.
Note that you can Click the Year (4 digits) at the top of the Calender and type a year