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Date Picker, Enter Year 2020 but Saves as Year 1920!

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    Date Picker, Enter Year 2020 but Saves as Year 1920!

    Hi Folks,

    Maybe someone out there can help.

    We have a website running on Alpha Web App Server.

    When we enter a date with a year of 2020 into a Grid using the "Date/Time Picker" the Year is stored in the DB as 1920, not 2020. Enter 2019 and it works perfect.

    Any ideas? Perhaps a property setting?

    Cheers,
    Steve

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    Re: Date Picker, Enter Year 2020 but Saves as Year 1920!

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    Gregg
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      #3
      Re: Date Picker, Enter Year 2020 but Saves as Year 1920!

      Are you entering 2 digit years?
      What is the Date format being used?
      What is the Date format set to in the Grid Properties Miscellaneous section?

      Check the "Switch year" property - it's in the Date/Time Picker Properties. By default it is set to 20.

      Also check the Grid Property... "Switch year" under the Miscellaneous section. It's default is empty... which means use a default value of 30.

      If your Date Picker is set to use a 2 digit year, then the Date Picker should be showing 1920 as well.

      My Grid Miscellaneous Date format is set to MM/dd/yyyy... and Switch Year is empty.
      My field Date format is set to <DefaultDateformat> which will pick up the Grid Date format.
      Because a 4 year date is being used, the Switch year does not get used.

      If you're using a 2 digit year in your date formats, then the Switch year will get used.

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        #4
        Re: Date Picker, Enter Year 2020 but Saves as Year 1920!

        Hi Davidk,

        Your advice to set the year to 4 digits did the trick!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! :)

        Steve

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          #5
          Re: Date Picker, Enter Year 2020 but Saves as Year 1920!

          How do you do this in bulk? I have 1900 components that I potentially have to fix. This is brutal!
          Chad Brown

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            #6
            Re: Date Picker, Enter Year 2020 but Saves as Year 1920!

            I have added the following to my users login redirect page and it seems to work for everywhere I have checked so far.

            session.__protected__clientSideDateFormat = "MM/dd/yyyy"

            Most likely it doesnt need the __protected__ but it works anyways.
            Chad Brown

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              Re: Date Picker, Enter Year 2020 but Saves as Year 1920!

              Starting 1/1/2020 if you have an older website, dates might not work correctly anymore. You most likely left the default action for Date Translation for 2 year dates to end in 2020. If you don't change the definition higher than 20, starting yesterday, if someone enters a date as 1/1/20, Alpha will assume the date YEAR is 1920.

              There are a few different locations that you will have to change the default year for the 2020's.

              Such as:
              The 'View' menu, 'Settings', 'Date' - Change the Two digit dates between 00 and (change the 20 to 40) are assumed to be in the 21st century.
              In a grid/UX and possibly others components, Component Properties, Miscellaneous Section, change the format to MM/dd/yyyy and change the switch year to 40.
              In the Search & DETAIL View Properties that have date parameters you must go into each date field, Miscellaneous Section, change the Display format to MM/dd/yyyy to avoid the issue.
              ETC...

              Hope this helps.
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              Barry Kucher
              http://www.411tech.org

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                #8
                Re: Date Picker, Enter Year 2020 but Saves as Year 1920!

                My solution above is working and I have not had to change any of the other settings. But thanks.
                Chad Brown

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                  Re: Date Picker, Enter Year 2020 but Saves as Year 1920!

                  I have several UX components that use date picker date fields. I have checked and all UX components are set to four digit year format, changed the switch year in Other Properties to 40, and the switch year in the Date/Time picker properties on each control to 40. When a user enter 01/10/20 for instance, the system records the date as 01/10/1920. This is already causing some major headaches as data is getting entering incorrectly. I also tried adding session.__protected__clientSideDateFormat = "MM/dd/yyyy" to my server-side OnDialogInitialize and no joy.

                  Any thoughts or has anyone else successfully gotten Alpha to recognize 01/01/20 as 01/01/2020 in UX components?
                  Brad Weaver, President
                  ComputerAid International
                  Ottawa ON Canada
                  Versailles KY USA
                  www.compuaid.com

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                    #10
                    Re: Date Picker, Enter Year 2020 but Saves as Year 1920!

                    I had this issue in one of my UX's (web app running 6348). I discovered that, in the Date/Time Picker Properties, my date format was MM/dd/yy 0h:0m AM. I actually wanted a four digit year and after changing the yy to yyyy the problem was solved for me.

                    By the way, one of the pre-releases after 6348 fixed the issue. It's in the prerelease notes.
                    Mike Brown - Contact Me
                    Programmatic Technologies, LLC
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