Date range

Messensi
In my Zotero library, I have some works of which volumes have been published in various years, I mean a massive book written from 1910 to 1920. I have written 1910-1920 in the field "Date" in my library. When I quote this work in Word (Chicago style), only yhe first appear. Is it normal?
Thank you in advance.
  • adamsmith
    https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/28605/a-problem-with-dates/
  • Messensi
    Thank you very much.
    Do you know whether fixing this bug is planned?
  • adamsmith
    Not super soon - it's not technically a bug but rather a limitation of the current date parsing - but in general everyone agrees the date field needs to be able to accommodate more complex dates.
  • athompse
    When you do look into more complex dates, please consider adding in something so it can deal with month ranges as well as years.

    I have a manuscript which the archive dates as "July 20 - September 18, 1918". If I put that date into Zotero, I get neither July 20 nor September 18 but an amalgamation (September 20, 1918), which is just wrong.

    I'm just tagging it for now, but wanted to add that to the date-range discussion since everyone else seems to be talking about year ranges where it takes one over the other, or reverses them, etc.
  • adamsmith
    thanks - I'm pretty sure once Zotero is going to implement this, they'll do it right.
    CSL (i.e. the citation styles) already has pretty sophisticated date-range ability, so this is really a date parsing issue on the Zotero side:
    http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html#date-ranges
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