When a serial holdings record includes a pattern for a completely irregular issue, and the only chronology date on the issue is the year, the chronology day and month chosen when the publication pattern was set up is used for all following issues checked in using that pattern. The ability to manually adjust the chronology date would be very helpful, and would ensure that issues display in the correct order.

In the attached image, the expected date shows the date that the issue was actually received. However, because the chronology date for the first completely irregular issue we received was set as 1/1/2024 when the pattern was created, and the only chronology information available on the issue is the year, there is no way way to make the chronology date reflect the date of receipt without adding a day of month and month. Since neither of these things appear on the issue itself, this is not desirable. I'd rather just be able to change the chronology date.