From 0bbd505083ce7bd885e6b7a10cd0f2f54f0de36f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Davide Negretti <davide.negretti@4science.it>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:45:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [CST-5316] Wrong 'dc.date.issue' format causes loader to be
 shown indefinitely in "Browsing by issue date" page

---
 .../browse-by-date-page/browse-by-date-page.component.ts        | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/app/browse-by/browse-by-date-page/browse-by-date-page.component.ts b/src/app/browse-by/browse-by-date-page/browse-by-date-page.component.ts
index 4b445dedb7..e11aa2f3fd 100644
--- a/src/app/browse-by/browse-by-date-page/browse-by-date-page.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/browse-by/browse-by-date-page/browse-by-date-page.component.ts
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ export class BrowseByDatePageComponent extends BrowseByMetadataPageComponent {
         let lowerLimit = environment.browseBy.defaultLowerLimit;
         if (hasValue(firstItemRD.payload)) {
           const date = firstItemRD.payload.firstMetadataValue(metadataKeys);
-          if (hasValue(date)) {
+          if (isNotEmpty(new Date(date))) {
             const dateObj = new Date(date);
             // TODO: it appears that getFullYear (based on local time) is sometimes unreliable. Switching to UTC.
             lowerLimit = isNaN(dateObj.getUTCFullYear()) ? lowerLimit : dateObj.getUTCFullYear();