#580932 should be more tolerant in editing date tag

Package:
quodlibet
Source:
quodlibet
Submitter:
"W. Martin Borgert"
Date:
2010-05-19 21:57:15 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#580932#5
Date:
2010-05-09 22:16:01 UTC
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Both quodlibet and exfalso accept only ISO-8601-style dates,
which is a little bit too intolerant for my taste. It is nice to
be warned about wrong date formats, but sometimes I like to
enter date tags like:

"1969-07-19..1969-07-20"
"1969-07-19 — 1969-07-20"
"1969-07-19 or 1969-07-20"

Please change the behaviour of exfalso/quodlibet into a warning.
#580932#10
Date:
2010-05-18 15:22:38 UTC
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ID3 mandates ISO-8601-style dates. The QL developers are interested in
being as standards-compliant as possible, and so we do not support
writing broken tags; additionally, supporting non-standard date formats
may require beefing up parsing and sorting code in several places. For
these reasons, it is unlikely that incorrect date tags will ever be
accepted (even with a warning).

I recommend using a different tag (i.e. something other than 'date') to
store the extended date ranges you describe, or perhaps only the second
half of them.

Steven
#580932#15
Date:
2010-05-18 19:25:31 UTC
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Quoting "Steven Robertson" <steven@strobe.cc>:

I see. Let's close this bug then.

OK, thanks for the hint!
#580932#20
Date:
2010-05-19 21:54:08 UTC
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tags 580932 + wontfix

I'm marking it 'wontfix' instead, so in case someone else
has the same idea later it will still appear on the bug
page.

regards,
Christine