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This is either a bug in my documentation or in my code, and we need to decide which and fix it. According to the user manuals, a search can ask for articles published in a given month without specifying the year of publication and all the articles published in that month and meeting the other search criteria will be included in the results set. However, the code in production ignores the month date when the year date is not specified (I discovered this as I was writing the automated tests for the board member search page). Looking at the code for the Drupal 7 system, I see that this behavior was copied from that version (though the search form didn't prevent the user from selecting a month without specifying a year, and the user manual says pretty much the same thing the current user manual says, implying that searching by month of publication without specifying a year should produce a results set consisting solely of articles published in that month).

So my question to you, ~vshields and ~juther, is: which behavior do you prefer for this field? I'd rather not preserve the original behavior so completely that the user thinks searching by publication month alone will work when it won't, and there's no performance or other technical impediment to supporting this type of search (though I concede that use cases for it would arise infrequently at best). For the moment I have modified the code in the glacier branch so that the automated tests (which conform to what the documentation says will happen) pass.

Please let me know your preference.