Zotero changed the date of items with no dates, to "1970-1-1"
Hello,
I realised that some weeks ago, Zotero has arbitrarily changed the date of some 400 items that I had left with an empty date, on purpose; it changed all dates to "1970-1-1" autonomously.
Moreover, it does not let me change it back to empty, if I delete the date it fills it again with 1970-1-1.
I don't see the need to do that, but maybe you have an explanation. However, it's quite annoying, as I need these Items to be left with an empty date.
They refer mostly to websites sources that I need to keep on top of each folder, and that I cite very often. Bibliographically speaking is not very correct, but it serves my needs, and by the way I can always use a style with a "last accessed on xxx-xx-xx" if i want to let people know when I last checked that site/sources
Can anyone tel me if there is some setting I need to change and why Zotero all of a sudden decided that there cannot be empty dates items?
Best regards
Michele
I realised that some weeks ago, Zotero has arbitrarily changed the date of some 400 items that I had left with an empty date, on purpose; it changed all dates to "1970-1-1" autonomously.
Moreover, it does not let me change it back to empty, if I delete the date it fills it again with 1970-1-1.
I don't see the need to do that, but maybe you have an explanation. However, it's quite annoying, as I need these Items to be left with an empty date.
They refer mostly to websites sources that I need to keep on top of each folder, and that I cite very often. Bibliographically speaking is not very correct, but it serves my needs, and by the way I can always use a style with a "last accessed on xxx-xx-xx" if i want to let people know when I last checked that site/sources
Can anyone tel me if there is some setting I need to change and why Zotero all of a sudden decided that there cannot be empty dates items?
Best regards
Michele
Are you using any add-ons (other than the standard Zotero Word/LibreOffice add-on) or have performed any bulk actions in your library using API or Javascript (if that doesn't mean anything to you, you haven't)?
If the answer for both of these is "no", could we get a debug ID for trying to clear out the date that covers it changing back?
https://www.zotero.org/support/debug_output
Folder import to zotero
Zotero Abstract Cleaner
Zotero Preview
Zotero date from last modified
Judging from the name this latter looks like a likely culprit.. however, reading the github page (https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-date-from-last-modified) it seems inoffensive..,
this is the debug item D1331186420; I simply added a web page, and it set the date to 1970; so maybe if there is no date in the url it sets it to this default date.. however, at the worst, it could have done that only for new items I added since I installed it; how could it have changed all empty-date items I already had in my library and in one go?
I can remove these add-ons, but can I set back all these items to empty?
so is there a way to change all them back to empty date, in one go. ? I remember there was no possibility to do bulk editing actions, is it still the case ?
but make sure to turn off sync, back up your library, and you may have to experiment with the exact format the 'is' operator expects for dates.
date
-- the field list is https://api.zotero.org/itemFields?pprint=1 (linked from that page, too)