Extreme dates are permitted when adding or editing patients/patient visits using "add"/"addVisit" and "edit"/"editVisit"

[nus-pe-bot]

Currently patients/visits can be added to the registry with extreme visit date-times that are unreasonably distant in the past (i.e. adding a patient who "visited" on 01-01-0001 10:10).

While this doesn't currently disrupt any other functionality in the program, and can be corrected via the "edit" command, given the program's intended use-case in a clinic it does allow for potentially consequential user-error by practitioners across the program that might result in severe run-on-consequences in a real-life scenario (i.e. medical documentation).

This risk is not mentioned in the user guide, and thus I think practitioners expecting more safeguards surrounding data input may be especially at risk of making such mistakes.

In order to mitigate this risk, it may be useful to implement a limiting date in the past that cannot be exceeded when inputting dates, or at least a confirmation screen that explains the extremity of the user input.

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_{[original: nus-cs2113-AY2425S1/pe-interim#755] [original labels: type.FeatureFlaw severity.Low]}

[kaboomzxc]

Team's Response

Hi Tester, Thank you for your Description of Issue and Feedback.

after considering, we feel we could have implemented this guard against unreasonably distant past dates.

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