[mb-users] [unknown date]

[Chris B]

On 10/01/2008, Rob Keeney <largo84 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have many old vinyl, 78s and cassettes that have a label and cat#
> but no verifiable release year. Currently, you can't enter a release
> event without a date. How feasible would it be to allow [unknown date]
> to be an option? The only way to include this information now is via
> release annotations. While that's fine, the information does not show
> up in any of the label release lists because it's not in the database.
> Suppose you could look over a list of releases by a label and you
> could easily see the ones that were missing dates. Then, if this
> information were later to be found it would be easy to add.
>
> Does anyone else see the merit in having this as an option?

definitely needed, though i'd sooner we were just allowed to add
labels/cat#s/etc without dates, rather than having to enter [unknown
date] or that coming up when we don't enter a date - i think it would
be better to just be blank (apologies if that was your intention!).