Thread: Edit Metadata - Date and Published question
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Old 04-10-2015, 08:51 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by phossler View Post
Q1 - What is the purpose of the [Date] field? And how do people use it?

Q2 - Is there any way in the [Published] field to just enter a year? It appears that it needs month - day - year and most of the time all I have is a year

Thanks
Calibre uses DATE. That is the Date you First added the book
(Published) DATES formats can be set to year in Tweaks: gui_pubdate_display_format='yyyy'
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