"You do not have a valid Date Placed"

[+Yurt]

First time thread starter and I won't make a habit of it.

 

Just trying to publish a new cache, my 16th so I'm not a newbie, and I keep getting the error message "You do not have a valid Date Placed".

 

Now I initially thought it might be due to the fact that Australia is a day ahead of you folks in North America most of the time but this late in the day here even west coast USA has caught up.

 

I originally just clicked today's date from the pop-up calendar but was told 11 characters was too many (as it was in 13/Jul/2011 format for some reason).

 

So I changed it to 13/7/2011 and got the above message.

 

Thinking that maybe it's because over there the month comes first I changed it to 7/13/2011.

No dice.

 

Then I spotted it wanted it in mm/dd/yyyy.

So I tried 07/12/2011 (I even wound it back a day to be sure) and got the same message.

 

Now I can't even save my changes in draft form after unchecking 'enable'.

 

Is it just me? Never had this problem before.

[+Yurt]

Got it to work in the end by not changing the date from the original one I'd entered when first drafting the cache. If I changed it at all it wouldn't accept it. I did want to have the correct placement date on it but couldn't do it.

Bizarre.

[+Isonzo Karst]

clicked today's date from the pop-up calendar but was told 11 characters was too many (as it was in 13/Jul/2011 format

 

Definitely a bug.

 

I just edited an unpublished cache to July 14 2011, using the mm/dd/yyyy format (it's July 13, my time). No problem. My understanding is that you can date forward one day from today's date in Seattle, to allow for those who live across the dateline. I may be wrong about the "in Seattle" part - but one day forward from some point (GMT?).

 

You might log onto the Feedback site, and hunt for threads referencing the issue of the "too many characters", or other dating issues.

If using the calendar is throwing months as 3 letters, that needs fixing.

Edited July 13, 2011 by Isonzo Karst

[+Yurt]

Thanks for the reply. The reviewer managed to fix the date for me.

As I'm not placing another cache right now I can't check if it's still a problem.

[+Comepiedras]

First time thread starter and I won't make a habit of it.

 

Just trying to publish a new cache, my 16th so I'm not a newbie, and I keep getting the error message "You do not have a valid Date Placed".

 

Now I initially thought it might be due to the fact that Australia is a day ahead of you folks in North America most of the time but this late in the day here even west coast USA has caught up.

 

I originally just clicked today's date from the pop-up calendar but was told 11 characters was too many (as it was in 13/Jul/2011 format for some reason).

 

So I changed it to 13/7/2011 and got the above message.

 

Thinking that maybe it's because over there the month comes first I changed it to 7/13/2011.

No dice.

 

Then I spotted it wanted it in mm/dd/yyyy.

So I tried 07/12/2011 (I even wound it back a day to be sure) and got the same message.

 

Now I can't even save my changes in draft form after unchecking 'enable'.

 

Is it just me? Never had this problem before.

 

Got the same problem today. I tried everything (changed dates, order of months and days...) and nothing worked. Very frustrating!

[+Fianccetto]

I am getting this 'You do not have a valid date' message as well. It doesn't seem to matter what I type, it won't accept it!

 

I think I figured it out, but there is still a bug in the system (have submitted a bug report to the feedback thread.) I had to change my date preferences on my profile/ account to the American Way (mm/dd/yyyy).

Edited July 21, 2011 by Fianccetto

[+Ike 13]

The only time I have gotten that is when I try to put a date in the future.

[+Fianccetto]

I tried to do that too. It would only correct after I adjusted my preferences and I havn't had a problem with the other 2 cache listings I've submitted.

 

Just don't expect me to know what month it is half the time!

Edited July 21, 2011 by Fianccetto

[+robwee]

Same problem today to change the date to place the cache. My profile was dd/mmm/yyyy and changed this into dd/mm/yyyy (so 10 characters) and now I could change the date.

After that I change my profile back into dd/mmm/yyyy.