API:EPrints/MetaField/Date
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NAME
EPrints::MetaField::Date - dates
DESCRIPTION
This field is used to store a single date. The notation used is YYYY-MM-DD, where YYYY is the 4-digit year, MM is the 2 digit month (starting at 01) and DD is the 2 digit day of the month (starting at 01).
MM and DD may be omitted, giving the following possible values:
YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM YYYY
Database
- [fieldname]_year SQL_SMALLINT
- [fieldname]_month SQL_TINYINT
- [fieldname]_day SQL_TINYINT
Searching
Date fields can be searched as either single values or ranges. Searching for "2006" will also match 2006-12-25. You can search for "2000.." to search dates in or after 2000. Or "2000-12..2003-01" for December 2000 through January 2003.
PROPERTIES
In addition to those properties available in EPrints::MetaField:
input_style
- long
- Render labeled text entry boxes for year, month and day.
- short
- Render a single text entry box with a Javascript date picker.
render_res = "day"
Reduce the resolution the date is shown as.
render_style = "long"
- long
- Render the full month name.
- short
- Render an abbreviated month name.
METHODS
COPYRIGHT
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This file is part of EPrints http://www.eprints.org/.
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