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  • charliebarnes
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Topic: 'P' Date precision

The 'P' date precision is interpreted by Recorder 6 (and the NBN Gateway?) as a season - e.g. 1/6/1987 - 31/8/1987 is Summer 1987. These don't appear (at least in the examples I have found) to have been transferred across the NBN Atlas correctly, possibly because Darwin core doesn't handle season dates:

https://records.nbnatlas.org/occurrence … 348a3509ef

I assume they should be either entered as 'year' dates, (with the season in verbatimEventDate) or as a month range.

(all records: https://records.nbnatlas.org/occurrence … %3A%22P%22 )

Charlie Barnes
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Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership

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2 Reply by sratcliffe

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Re: 'P' Date precision

Thanks for this Charlie, I didn't know we had a P date precision!

I think that they should be a month range, and, as you say, with season in the verbatimEventDate.

I've added it to github: https://github.com/nbnuk/nbnatlas-issues/issues/446

Thanks, Sophie