Currently, the publication_date field on the Article model is a DateTime field.
However, frequently the only information we have about publication dates is a year, or a year-month. A DateTime field doesn't handle this particularly well. We end up having to make dummy dates like 2014-01-01 for 2014.
I am going to switch to a string based field in YYYY-MM-DD format so we can filter just by year by truncating the contents, rather than needing to do date arithmetic which is irrelevant for this.
Currently, the
publication_datefield on the Article model is a DateTime field.However, frequently the only information we have about publication dates is a year, or a year-month. A DateTime field doesn't handle this particularly well. We end up having to make dummy dates like
2014-01-01for 2014.I am going to switch to a string based field in YYYY-MM-DD format so we can filter just by year by truncating the contents, rather than needing to do date arithmetic which is irrelevant for this.