Dates and articles management

rinoceronte · 05-05-2017, 01:27 PM

Hello!
I'm Rinoceronte, from Italy, an enthusiastic user of Calibre, although I do not know how to use it very well yet.
I noticed 2 inconveniences that I could not eliminate, even following the instructions in the guide.

The first is managing the dates.
The time zone shown in my PC is GMT+01.00 and, in Calibre preferences, I set the dates in the form "dd MM yyyy".
When I add to my Calibre Portable library an epub, which in its "content.opf" file has a publication date for example 06.05.2017 (May, 6th 2017), the "metadata.opf" file, created in the ebook folder, reports <dc:date>2017-05-05T23:00:00+00:00</dc:date>.
It's as if the date had been converted to GMT.
However, Calibre interprets it and displays it accurately: 06.05.2017.

The second inconvenience occurs in the definition of words to consider articles. In preferences I completely deleted all the articles and entered "NONE". But this does not apply to those in English, which continue to be moved at the end of the title and separated by a comma. This is also the case for Italian words, equal to English articles.

Most likely all depends on my incorrect settings and I would be very grateful if you told me how to eliminate these inconveniences.
Thanks and best regards.

Rinoceronte

kovidgoyal · 05-05-2017, 10:13 PM

1) Timestamps are deliberately serialized in UTC -- that is best for maximum portability

2) Articles are moved to the end of what? In what context.

rinoceronte · 05-06-2017, 07:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

1) Timestamps are deliberately serialized in UTC -- that is best for maximum portability

2) Articles are moved to the end of what? In what context.

Hello Kovid, my compliments for your Calibre.
I apologize for the articles, I was not very clear. I was referring to the sort-title, very useful for book search. For example:
Title: The holy bible
Sort-title: holy bible, The
Title: A casa con i tuoi
Sort-title: casa con i tuoi, A.
For the publication date, let me give you another example.
If this was, for example, 01.01.2017 and Calibre changed it to 31.12.2016T23.00.00, wherever I post the book, this would have a wrong publication date: Dec, 2016 or just 2016.
Thank you for your attention and good luck!

kovidgoyal · 05-06-2017, 10:17 PM

No, calibre does not chang3e a date of 01.01.2017 to 31.12.2016...

When adding time information toa pure date, calibre always preserves the month and year.

And if the original date has time information, then changing the time zone does not change the date on display since dates with timezones can be trivially converted to the local timezone.

I'm not sure what your issue with title sort is. If you dont like articles being moved to the end, simply ignore title sort and use only title.

You can tell calibre to also do that via Preferences->Tweaks->Control formatting of title and series and Control sorting of title and series.

05-05-2017, 01:27 PM	#1
rinoceronte Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2017 Device: none	Dates and articles management Hello! I'm Rinoceronte, from Italy, an enthusiastic user of Calibre, although I do not know how to use it very well yet. I noticed 2 inconveniences that I could not eliminate, even following the instructions in the guide. The first is managing the dates. The time zone shown in my PC is GMT+01.00 and, in Calibre preferences, I set the dates in the form "dd MM yyyy". When I add to my Calibre Portable library an epub, which in its "content.opf" file has a publication date for example 06.05.2017 (May, 6th 2017), the "metadata.opf" file, created in the ebook folder, reports <dc:date>2017-05-05T23:00:00+00:00</dc:date>. It's as if the date had been converted to GMT. However, Calibre interprets it and displays it accurately: 06.05.2017. The second inconvenience occurs in the definition of words to consider articles. In preferences I completely deleted all the articles and entered "NONE". But this does not apply to those in English, which continue to be moved at the end of the title and separated by a comma. This is also the case for Italian words, equal to English articles. Most likely all depends on my incorrect settings and I would be very grateful if you told me how to eliminate these inconveniences. Thanks and best regards. Rinoceronte

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05-05-2017, 10:13 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,337 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	1) Timestamps are deliberately serialized in UTC -- that is best for maximum portability 2) Articles are moved to the end of what? In what context.

05-06-2017, 10:17 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,337 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No, calibre does not chang3e a date of 01.01.2017 to 31.12.2016... When adding time information toa pure date, calibre always preserves the month and year. And if the original date has time information, then changing the time zone does not change the date on display since dates with timezones can be trivially converted to the local timezone. I'm not sure what your issue with title sort is. If you dont like articles being moved to the end, simply ignore title sort and use only title. You can tell calibre to also do that via Preferences->Tweaks->Control formatting of title and series and Control sorting of title and series.

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