Strange behaviour Date element

[Egocentralis]

Hi,

I think this one is something easy but cannot find a sollution.

In a form what is used to make a clients report we use a date element. This element we use to give the date on what day the report is created.



When clicking on the blue button a small calendar is opening. When hovering over the dates its showing the correct dates and days.



But when we click the todays date (today 3 may) then something odd is happening. Its changing the date to some date in history a long time ago. I have tested this a lot of time now and the strange part is, when i choose a date from a few days ago or some weeks ago everything is working allright. In 1 or 2 times out of ten it gives a wrong date after clicking. But clicking today is giving a wrong date almost everytime on this page. Then after refreshing the page sometimes its working okay.. and sometimes it gives a wrong date.



Can someone explain to me what is happening, why it is happening and most important how can i solve this??????????

Because 10-11-2008 for todays date.. is pretty strange.

I hope i miss something easy!!

Regards Jap

 

[troester]

What did you set as form date format?

Did you unintentionally mix the old date element (this one) and new jdate element (created as default date_time in new lists as long as you don't select "Default(old date)" in Content Type) in the same form?

 

[Egocentralis]

uhm I dont think i have used jdate in the same form since this form is older and not touched by me to change anything on it. How can I see if both are present? Sorry sounds stupid but i am not sure where to look.

 

[juuser]

Just check your form element list "plugin" column. There you can see whether you have both "date" and "jdate" elements on the same form.

 

[Egocentralis]

Nope it are all date elements...

 

[troester]

Is it only in this form?
The same in frontend and backend?
Do you have any (custom) JS running for this form?
Which Joomla and Fabrik template? Did you try with Joomla's standard Protostar template?

 

[juuser]

I remember I had similar problem years ago, but I think it was related to setting the date value with javascript. For some reason it showed correctly in form, but actually returned wrong value.

Is it a "clean" element, so it value is not set by javascript or default value set to something in date element settings?

 

[Egocentralis]

The only setting what is active is a validate setting what is set to not empty.

At the rest its just a default date picker.

The strange thing is. we have more date elements on the website with exact the same settings with no problems.. only this one is causing problems when choosing today's date..

So i dont know where to start solving this issue.

 

[henk]

Did you check the database table (using phpmyadmin)?
Maybe for some odd reason, the datatype is not 'date'?

 

[juuser]

If the problem is not the one referred by @henk and if all other date elements work, then it might be a "broken/corrupted" element. I've came across to this kind of problems a few times in a past. Renaming old element, creating a new one and updating it's values from the old one in PhpMyAdmin just takes a minute or two.

 

[troester]

Check also if you have some forgotten form_X.js (X=your form ID) in components\com_fabrik\js

 

[Egocentralis]

Ok i have checked everything. I cannot find a reason why. Someone told me it was happening because the date element must converse the usa time to dutch time... but I dont know.

Then, i activated the setting default to current date. So the date of today is showing and if desired people can choose another date.

That did the trick.. since todays date is showing and other dates did show correctly allready.