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2 years ago mdEditor should support dates entered as only a year or as a year and month. Support full ISO date/time format.
Valid ISO dates can include only a year (YYYY) or a year and month (YYYY-MM). The date selector should be updated to support the following features:
- [ ] Default behavior should be to select a date (YYYY-MM-DD) only. Date values should be written to JSON as "YYYY-MM-DD" with no timestamp.
- [ ] An option should allow for the user to select and include a time. If a time is selected the complete date and time (in UTC) should be written to JSON. This is the current behavior.
- [ ] Times should be displayed in the editor as local time.
- [ ] Users should have the option to specify a time zone when entering a date. (Users may be entering data from another time zone)
- [ ] Users should have the ability to select only a year. A year-only must be written to JSON as "YYYY"
- [ ] Users should have the option to select only a year and month (no day). A Year-month selection must be written to JSON as "YYYY-MM"
See also: #205, #246, ISO 8601 on Wikipedia
Reported by Bethany Walker (USGS), bwalker@usgs.gov. An edit to the Resource Time Period containing a year, results in a month and day being inserted by mdEditor, resolving to a January 1 date, instead of retaining the year format. This is a result of a translation from CSDGM-mdJSON in which the date field in CSDGM is not zero filled. This is an artifact of the editor used, as format does not require zero filling. Metavist will format the yyyymmdd format as xxxx0000, while others will format it as: xxxx If translated directly from mdJSON to ISO, it works fine. If however, if the year is updated in mdEditor, the month and day gets inserted along with the year update. For instance: 1986 with an edit changing the year to 1987 would yield this result: 1987-01-01. Speculation it may be an issue with the date picker.
https://github.com/adiwg/mdEditor/issues/205 https://github.com/adiwg/mdEditor/issues/246