Hi, On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Steve Wills<swi...@beyond-print.com> wrote: > no. I think the grace period helps to determine when the fine is applied > but not the amount of the fine. > The fine_amount should be based on the duration between the due date and > today. (due_date - today) > the grace_end_date is grace_days after due_date. (due_date + grace_days) > if today is less than or equal to grace_end_date, no fine. > if today is after grace_end_date, fine_amount is charged as defined above. > On a human note: I think that unless you are a meanie, it is human nature to > try and give the patron a break, but strictly speaking, the grace period has > nothing to do with the amount of the fine. At our library, there is no > grace period but fines are never collected! Bringing the book back is always > "good enough". LOL!
And thereby hangs the entire business model of several library book collections services. :) The interpretation of the grace period as affecting the effective due date but not the overdue fine makes sense to me, but since it it would mean a change in library fines, I wanted to double-check that there weren't a lot of libraries depending on the current behavior. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcha...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
