Issue Release Dates

I'd like to get some kind of official ruling here, please.

When you create a new issue, which date should you put in the release date fields?

1. The actual date the comic hit the newsstands? E.g., 07/23/2008
2. The published date from the comic masthead and/or cover? E.g., 09//2008 (Which then translates to September 1, 2008)
   

It should be the comic/cover date (you're #2).  The day shouldn't show up but we need that for the weekly ones (like Trinity).  The actual released date should only be used by myself when I flag the issues for the NEW COMICS page.

Thanks.

Then can you please tell the morons screwing up the new entries to stop doing it wrong. There's a bunch of them and they're ticking me off. Cheers.

Bumping this to the top as no one seems to have paid the slightest bit of attention.

Next time I will name and shame the morons doing it wrong consistently.

Also it seems when you don't fill in the day, just year/month the day is automatically set as 1. Is it supposed to do that?

The day does seem to default to 1.  I'll have to look into the possibility of doing away with that.  We need it for the weekly comics (like Trinity, 52, etc) but it's annoying on the monthlies.  It's just not a HUGE priority I suppose when there are other things that need to be looked at.  But it is on my list to pass along.

Realistically there should be other options as well like Early Sept. and Late Sept. for the bimonthlies and Spring, Summer, etc. for the quarterlies (Green Lantern Corps Quarterly for example).

Bumping this to the top as people have been messing around again.

bump

Sometime to keep the issues in the correct order I make up my own date

Early (Month) = 1st
Mid (Month)= 15th
Late (Month)= 20th