What does “check dates” mean?

Hey @daniel1009.

Well, the thing is that previous developers decided to store the sermon date in a textual format (e.g. 08/02/2017), that wasn’t a good decision, but that’s how it was done for a while, and it worked.

But, the problem appeared when those developers switched to Unix date format without making backwards compatible changes in the code. (By the way, change to Unix time was a smart move, it was just not done in a proper way.)

So, some parts of the code expect textual date, but some parts expect Unix time and there’s where problems appeared.

Our solution was to provide an UI that users could easily use and convert textual dates to Unix time with couple clicks.

So, when you click on “Fix Dates”, the script will just convert old sermon dates to new format (Unix time).

Thanks for the response. You guys certainly have your hands full. I love how you are modernizing all the code and so appreciate all the work you are doing to bring this company up to date. I know that sometimes causes issues like what has just happened with the update, but this is definitely the right direction to be going in. Keep up the outstanding job!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by daniel1009.

Thank you. Your response means a lot to us. You made our day.