It'd be good to transform these dates to YYYY-MM-DD to avoid confusion with different locales. I think something like
.replace(/(\d{2})\/(\d{2})\/(\d{2})/, "20$3-$1-$2") should work, but please test.

Maybe, before that just try out whether ZU.strToISO(...) is giving us already a nice formatted date.

@adam3smith I guess, that one of $2 should be $1.

yes, thanks fixed, and good point on strToISO

strToISO can handle the string but drops the time ("03/02/17 10:40 pm" => "2017-03-02"). For what it's worth, Zotero did detect and export the date correctly as it was originally ingested.

@zuphilip What's the best way to call this in FW? Zotero.Utilities.strToISO(FW.Xpath('//span[@class="date-meta"]').text()) doesn't work.

The date without the time is normally enough for citations when used as a publication date. The time last modified or accessed a resource might be different.

I am not sure whether you can use this function in the FW.

yeah, you only have a list of specified functions available for FW, so this probably doesn't work.
It should be available in a hook, though:
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/framework#post-processing_with_hooks

@zuphilip I can call strToISO (Zotero.Utilities.strToISO("03/02/17 10:40 pm") works fine) but I don't know if there's a trick to calling it with FW.Xpath

how common is this as the exact author string? If this comes up a lot, might be worth adding a hook that transform this into a single-field author.

Not often in my usage, but upon search, looks often enough. Is there a way to do what you mention within FW or does the whole translator need to be written out? @adam3smith

I know I'm saying this everywhere, but in FW, hooks are the only way to go here:
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/framework#post-processing_with_hooks

Aha! Just what I wanted. Thanks

I got an e-mail with a question about single field but can't find your post. Did you figure that out or do you still need an answer?

Figured out out, though I don't see mention of fieldMode in the documentation. I've had issues contributing to the Zotero wiki for a while—I'd be happy to contribute what I've learned if the wiki were, for instance, on Github

as in you can't log in with edit access or something else? There was so much vandalism, that Zotero devs need to give you access individually (I thought they did that for you?). Post to the forums with a link to this post.

I log in but don't have write access again—I'll work it out with Dan but just wonder if it wouldn't be easier with another (more accessible) platform