output precision for dates with incomplete data

[boerni667]

Hi,

as you maybe know from my other issue i'm trying to parse date from an bibliographic database into an ISO8601 String.
This format is machine-readable and has the advantage, that if the data is incomplete, i don't need to fill it up with guessed Dates.

At the moment i find it quite hard to determine how precise the datetime object is, which i get out of the parser, and which dates are parsed and which are filled up over the 'RELATIVE_BASE' setting.

Wikidata has a nice Feature for their date-objects, the precision value: (see also: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Dates )

It would also allow to parse Dates from a string like "19th Century" to a machine-readable date-object without loosing the information that its actually a date-range...

[noviluni]

Hi @boerni667!

We are currently trying to see how could we provide more information regarding the missing information/precision. There is an open issue here: #700

Currently, we have the "period", you can see an explanation here: #700 (comment) , and we are open to discuss how to implement a better solution.

thanks for the feedback!