Date fields in wrong format

  • Resolved Jon Hart

    (@jon-hart)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    If you include a date field in a data entry form, it defaults to YYYY-MM-DD, which is just plain stupid. I know may browsers provide a datepicker but it’s not consistent enough.
    I have tried changing to a text field and using a normal format but then the data obviously doesn’t map and so records the default date of 01/01/1970.
    I’ve set up a jQuery datepicker but it uses a normal date format, so won’t work until I get this issue resolved.
    Is there anyway to make this work?

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  • Plugin Contributor Lap

    (@lapzor)

    Depending on what you will do with the date information maybe it is a solution for you to make it a text field on the MailChimp.com side, and make it a date field in the browser. That way whatever the browser sends in (indeed different per browser) will be saved as normal text in MailChimp. Of course this would make it hard to do automation on that information.

    At this moment we do not offer a datepicker with our plugin because there are already so many date pickers out there. Normally you can setup the (jquery) date picker to use any date format, but for that i will have to refer you to the support of that date picker.

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