* Date of publication of books below 100 A.C

canariohippie · 02-25-2017, 08:59 AM

Regards:

I have a few books that I would like to place on the date of publication a date below 100 A.C., authors such as Seneca, Philippicas, Marco Tulio Cicero ...

Is there any workaround or trick to set the date?

kovidgoyal · 02-25-2017, 10:35 AM

No the date field only goes upto 100 AD. You can use a secondary column via Preferences->Add your own column make it if type integer since for books that old a year should suffice.

canariohippie · 02-25-2017, 11:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

No the date field only goes upto 100 AD. You can use a secondary column via Preferences->Add your own column make it if type integer since for books that old a year should suffice.

It is an honor to have been answered by you, Mr. Goyal. Your Team and you have created a great application. I take this opportunity to ask you why the function I commented in the previous post about the lower limit date fields is not implemented in Calibre?

There are hundreds of written works that were published before the year 100 A.C., I put for example "De Natura Deorum" of the Roman orator Cicero written in the year 45 B.C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Natura_Deorum

Thanks for your attention.

kovidgoyal · 02-25-2017, 11:26 AM

There are technical reasons for it -- basically various bits of software calibre relies on, do not support handling early dates.

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02-25-2017, 10:35 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,701 Karma: 28549304 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No the date field only goes upto 100 AD. You can use a secondary column via Preferences->Add your own column make it if type integer since for books that old a year should suffice.

02-25-2017, 11:26 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,701 Karma: 28549304 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There are technical reasons for it -- basically various bits of software calibre relies on, do not support handling early dates.

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