Hi, Semantic Forms uses PHP's strtotime() function to parse dates. My guess is that you're using a version of PHP earlier than 5.1; before then, strtotime() had UNIX's own date limitations, of not handling dates before 1970 and after 2037. (You can run "php -v" on the command line to check.) I don't know how important it is to try to fix this limitation, since PHP 5.1 came out in 2005 and I assume is pretty standard by now, but on the other hand it should at least be noted in the documentation.
-Yaron On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:15 PM, John Ellingsworth <jelli...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I have existing 'date' property data of the following format stored in my > wiki: > > Oct 19 1837 > Jan 22 1877 > etc. > > Semantic mediawiki displays the Type:Date in the factbox for these > dates as follows: > > 19 October 1837 > 22 January 1877 > etc. > > I like this format, but it doesn't seem to work as well. > > It is problematic when editing with the Form I have created for the > template, as it displays every date in the input box/dropdown/input > box (date field format) as: > > 31 December 1969 > 31 December 1969 > etc. > > When I update the dates to be in the format as displayed in the > factbox, i.e. 22 January 1877, the form still displays the date as 31 > December 1969. > > My two questions are: > > Is there any way to make the form work with the existing date formats? > What is the correct format for dates to be entered? > Should I be breaking the date format down further (Day, Month, Year)? > (I suspect this might be the case, but there are many existing entries > in there...) > > As always, any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > > John Ellingsworth > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Semantic Forms" group. To post to this group, send email to semantic-forms@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to semantic-forms+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
