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26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Patrick M. Niedzielski <patrick <at> pniedzielski.net>
Cc: Ryan Kavanagh <rak <at> debian.org>, 36252 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:19:23 +0100

Patrick M. Niedzielski <patrick <at> pniedzielski.net> writes:

> I’d like to reopen this bug, and submit the attached patch which I
> believe fixes the issue.

OK, reopened.

> This patch teaches ‘bibtex-generate-autokey’ to prefer an
> ISO8601-formatted ‘date’ field when present, and fall back to a
> ‘year’, and is implemented using Lars’ ISO8601 parsing functions.

Looks reasonable to me.  I've added Roland to the Cc's; perhaps he has
some comments.

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