[mb-style] LiveBootlegStyle: How to handle incomplete dates

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2007/4/16, Cadalach <cadalach at gmail.com>:
>
> I also thought the accepted practice was to put in as much of a date
> as was available and just omit the stuff that wasn't available. That's
> what we do for release dates after all. Also "2000-Xx-Xx" contains no
> more info than just "2000" so why include the X's?
>
> Adding place holders might also lead to messier entries...Why wouldn't
> someone write"2000-XX-YY" or "2000-MM-DD" or any of a few other
> obvious ideas?


Well, I have seen (in other places than MB) 2000-XX-XX, not anything else


I don't think this is a particularly big issue, but avoiding place
> holders seems, to me, to be the cleanest solution.


To me too, it is just that I don't want to set rules for everything. The
fact that I would use the simple format doesn't mean that I am right, or
that there is a right position, for that matter.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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