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Edit the metadata of EPUB files
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Format "date" while renaming #86

Closed TigersWay closed 2 months ago

TigersWay commented 2 months ago

Hi, Is there any way to format "date" - keep only year, for example - while building template/renaming a file? Thanks!

benchen71 commented 2 months ago

No there isn't. And I don't think it would be possible to implement, because it would require that a consistent date format has been used as the content for that field. I can imagine a lot of different possibilities:

YYYY YYYY-MM-DD YY-MM-DD DD-MM-YYYY DD-MM-YY YYYY-DD-MM YY-DD-MM MM-DD-YYYY MM-DD-YY

Working out which part of the string is the year would therefore be a non-trivial programming exercise, one that I simply don't have time to pursue.