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Date bug in biber 2.16?

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schoeps commented

Biber 2.16 complains about the date format in

@article{A,
  author = {Name, A.},
  journal = {XYZ},
  date = {2020-01-01},
  number = {1},
  pages = {1--1},
  title = {Paper},
  volume = {1},
}

such that biber --tool --outfile test2.bib test.bib results in a file test2.bib without any dates. This is fixed in 2.17. However 2.16 is currently shipped with texlive. Can you do a quick fix, please?

moewew commented

Works for me as expected, test2.bib contains

@ARTICLE{A,
  AUTHOR = {Name, A.},
  DATE = {2020-01-01},
  JOURNALTITLE = {XYZ},
  NUMBER = {1},
  PAGES = {1--1},
  TITLE = {Paper},
  VOLUME = {1},
}

Maybe your cache is corrupted, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/541486/35864.

schoeps commented

Yes, deleting the cache folder helped. Thanks! This a rather unexpected behavior since only the date-field was affected and it is the first time for me (albeit using biber quite heavily).

Out of curiosity: does v2.17 use a different folder or why did that fix my problem?

moewew commented

Yeah, each Biber version has its own cache (sub)folder, so your 2.17 cache was probably OK while your 2.16 cache appeared corrupted.

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