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Originally Posted by magnoliasouth
I wonder why the developers elected to make month and day required? That doesn't make any sense.  |
Because the graphics toolkit software that calibre uses for date entry requires day, month, and year. None of us developers want to spend time reimplementing this enormous toolkit.
You can control what is displayed for the published date. For example, I display only the year. See Preferences -> Tweaks -> Control how dates are displayed. If you want to see only the year (for all books, not just one book), change the line containing gui_pubdate_display_format to be
Code:
gui_pubdate_display_format = 'yyyy'
As for data entry, I use '1 July' if I have only a year, and '1 TheMonth' if I have only a month and a year.