RE: [Koha-devel] Re: [Koha] Due dates

[Anthony W. Youngman]

Something else to think about ...

What if the due date falls on a holiday? It's all very well saying "you've got two weeks" or whatever it is, but especially over the New Year period the due date could be the last day of a five-day break so the borrower is almost a week short of their allotted time.

I was going to say "you should add ten working days", but for a library that's probably irrelevant. What you probably need to do is add an "extend a holiday to the next working day" module.

Cheers,
Wol

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Cormack [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: 16 February 2003 00:07
To: Erik Stainsby
Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: [Koha-devel] Re: [Koha] Due dates

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:00:57PM -0800, Erik Stainsby said:
> Chris,
>
> I'm curious how you would choose to approach this issue, strategically.
> Would you go at it this by adding a separate alternate routine for calculating
> due-times as opposed to due-dates? Or replace all due dates with hourly
> durations, then divide out the majority by whole days?  I suppose the third
> choice might be to make hourly calcs the product of days divided by hourly
> period currently in effect ...
>
> Choices, choices ... Love to hear your thoughts.
>
Hi Erik

Ive shifted this over to the devel list as it seems to fit better there :)

My initial thought was, currently due dates are calculated by taking the
current date and adding an offset.
This currently is just a number of days. But using the Date::Manip module it
shouldnt be too hard to make this days and minutes/hours

eg
$date=&DateCalc("today","+ 3hours 12minutes 6 seconds",\$err);

For items that have a today + some number of days offset due date, we just
set to be the closing time of the library that day.

The trick then becomes setting the rules for overdues etc.
Currently its set like this

| categorycode | itemtype | restrictedtype | rentaldiscount | reservecharge
| fine     | firstremind | chargeperiod | accountsent | chargename |
A            | ART      |           NULL |           NULL |      1.000000 |
1.000000 |           7 |         7 |          28 | Fine       |

Where the firstremind tells us that after 7 days we apply our first charge.
This will need to be changed so it handles minutes/hours as well as days.

Im still just mulling it over at this stage, It wont be making it into the
2.0 release (Paul has called for a feature freeze). But I think we could get
it into one of the 2.1.x releses

Any other suggestions gratefully accepted

Chris
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