Subject: Re: bug#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 16:55:47 +0200

Ryan Kavanagh <[email-masked]> writes:

> This requires a bit of care because the 'date' field can contain
> an arbitrary date satisfying the "ISO8601-2 Extended Format
> Specification Level 1". Fortunately, a relatively simple regex can
> extract the year from all of the examples listed in the biblatex
> manual[0].

(This reminds me -- Emacs should really have a parser that can parse all
ISO8601 variants.  There's parse-iso8601-time-string, but it only
handles the simplest of the formats...)

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