Can't edit "Date placed" for unpublished cache.

[+hostanut]

Some time back my wife started a cache page for a cache in the works.

 

Today, she made edits to the cache page including updating the "Date Placed" field.

 

We did notice that when clicking on the calendar to change the date....it changed to Dec/11/2016.

Submitting changes resulted in "You do not have a valid Date Placed."

 

Work around.....manually enter the new date (ie 12/11/2016)

 

PC is Windows XP running Google Chrome.

[+niraD]

This sounds like a variation of one of the localization problems. With certain locale settings, it is possible to have the date picker produce a date format that the server-side software won't accept.

[+Isonzo Karst]

I've not seen it myself, but others have reported that manually entering the date worked, while selecting from the calendar did not. Seems backwards...

 

Aside from that, be sure you're using the date format that you've selected in Your Preferences.

 

Physical caches can be forwarded date ONE day, and back dated too far (Jan 1 1900).

Edited December 12, 2016 by Isonzo Karst

[+Chrysalides]

Physical caches can be ... back dated too far (Jan 1 1900).

Just because you don't have a Mr Fusion powered DeLorean doesn't mean that no one here has one.

 

Jokes aside, this can cause a problem because the last time I tried, I couldn't enter dates before Jan 1 2000 in PQs unless I hack the form (and I don't know if it still works). When you're using date ranges to split an area into multiple sets of 1000 caches you'll miss those caches.

Edited December 14, 2016 by Chrysalides