# Adding start and end date attribute to relationships

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/adding-start-and-end-date-attribute-to-relationships/683222
**Category:** BookBrainz
**Tags:** relationships
**Created:** [February 26, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/adding-start-and-end-date-attribute-to-relationships/683222 "2024-02-26T15:56:00Z")
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### Author: ![blackteadarkmatter](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/67e7ee/32.png) [@blackteadarkmatter](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/blackteadarkmatter)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/adding-start-and-end-date-attribute-to-relationships/683222/15 "2024-02-28T14:19:35Z")

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Nice to see there isn’t as much disagreement as it seemed.

> [@indy133](#):
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> The release date is the date for the first printing, but doesn’t cover the date of the reprints.

I understand what you’re trying to do, but this would really work better with multiple dates. Otherwise, all dates but the last would be lost. And, besides, we don’t generally know the date of the _last_ reprint, just the one we currently have (often not even that). Especially with MB’s precedence, I think it just makes more sense to allow multiple dates.

> [@indy133](#):
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> And the fact that we Germans don’t use the term “reprint” in our books but only “edition”

Germans sure are very particular about an awful lot of things, aren’t they? 😉 But eventually we should have documentation pages for each language/country. We have that in MB, and with books this kind of thing is probably more common.

> [@indy133](#):
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> > [@blackteadarkmatter](#):
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> > I would say these should definitely be different editions
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> Yes, that is certainly what it will come down to.

I actually misread you as saying “The only difference between the two editions was the font _and_ the cover” — I thought you were saying the artwork was different. I still think it should be a different edition, but it’s not as obvious…

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