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Originally Posted by chaley
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.
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Of course, I understand this. But you'll agree that it is an unneeded restriction (and the ePub spec, for example, explicitly allows year-only dates), and entering some particular day and/or month when none is known is a kludge.
I wonder if something could be done to allow the use of year-only dates, without the need of modifying the toolkit (other than pressing the toolkit developers to add this should-have-been-there-from-the-beginning feature). Maybe two checkboxes for "no day" and "no month"? Maybe the possibility of manually entering the date?