%year% returning two different values for the same file

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I'm working on a filter to reorganise a massive music library, which is currently this (still WIP):

F:\Music\$left($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%),1)\$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)\\%year%$if(%date%,-$cutLeft(%date%,2)$if($eq($len(%date%),4),-$cutRight(%date%,2),),) ~ %album%\$left(%artist%,1)$left($right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),$strrchr(%artist%, ))),1)[-%year%][$num(%discnumber%,2)-]$num(%track%,2) - %title%

Indented for readability:

F:\Music
    \$left($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%),1)
        \$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)
            \\%year%$if(%date%,-$cutLeft(%date%,2)$if($eq($len(%date%),4),-$cutRight(%date%,2),),) ~ %album%
                \$left(%artist%,1)$left($right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),$strrchr(%artist%, ))),1)[-%year%][$num(%discnumber%,2)-]$num(%track%,2) - %title%

The parts I'm concerned with are these:

%year%$if(%date%,-$cutLeft(%date%,2)$if($eq($len(%date%),4),-$cutRight(%date%,2),),)

Which displays the date as YYYY-MM-DD format (if this looks unnecessarily complicated, read on). %date% here seems to return MMDD from the date.

And this:

$left(%artist%,1)$left($right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),$strrchr(%artist%, ))),1)[-%year%]

Which displays the first letter of the first and last word in the Artist field, followed by year as YYYY.
(E.g. "Arjen Anthony Lucassen", "2012" -> "AL-2012")

My issue is this:
In the first code snippet, %year% returns "2012". In the second one, it returns "2012-04-20", which is what I wrote all that other gobbledigook to display. (It also managed to display exactly the format I didn't want, both times <_< )

I haven't really tested much to reproduce this behaviour (just writing "[-%year%]" anywhere else doesn't work), but it's very strange.

Can anyone shed light on this issue? Is the %year% field supposed to display YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD or something else? In the documentation it just says "Year".

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AFAIKT there is some information about DATE and YEAR if you have a look at the changelog
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/changelog.html
for Version 2.58 and 2.59

Perhaps this sheds some light.

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It does, thanks.

I've got foobar2000 set to use ID3v2.3, so it's saving the full date in TYER. I gather from that changelog that in Mp3tag, %date% fetches the TDAT tag, which isn't mentioned in foobar2000's tag mapping documentation. As far as I can tell, TDAT doesn't exist in my files at all, so I don't know where %date% is getting it's information from, or why %year% has changed on me.

I guess I'm still confused. Enlightened, but still confused.