Support submissions with date ranges #3300
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Now that we're well on the way to supporting date ranges within Loculus, we should enable users to explicitly upload date ranges.
For example at the moment a date of
1980
will be converted to1980-01-01
to1980-12-31
and the date2014-07
will be converted to2014-07-01
to2014-07-31
.However, in some cases people may know more specific date ranges, for example
1982-04
to1982-07
or2022-11-10
to2022-11-15
and we should enable this too!There are a couple of ways we could support this, but there's an existing ISO standard to use
/
for dates to indicate ranges, which is also supported by Genbank - so supporting this would kill two birds with one stone.We could also consider supporting users in uploading two columsn (
minDate
maxDate
) but this would mean more changes to our suggested files & probably more edits on the backend to convert them into our own date format.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: