Data field

[referee]

Hi,

Current data picker is very inconvenient to select some date far in the past/future. You can only go back and forth for 10 years. Then you select the furthest year available and has to reopen that area again to be able to select the date which is even further (that is terrible for entering birth date for instance).

At mobile devices it’s even more inconvenient with swiping along months. That would be cool if on mobile that field would open up a standard data/time picker/swiper window which is used on that particular mobile device.

[mdcrovitz]

I have another problem with the date picker. If you do exercise the great patience to go back multiple sets of decades to get to the proper year, then the final date installed in the field ends up with duplicate year values:

12/19/19501950

This is is now a bug and should get fixed.

[PACC]

Hi, had the same issue with duplicated years (example: 11-30-20142014).
In my case the issue was in the User Meta Fields Editor, I had set the date format to mm-dd-yyyy. Using mm-dd-yy resolved the issue (only 2 “yy”).
Just in case this may also address your issue.

[mdcrovitz]

That was it — problem solved by changing the date format to “yy-mm-dd” from “yyyy-mm-dd”. Using the 2-character “yy” descriptor to obtain a 4-digit century value was the trick.

I use the following filter which is now working perfectly.

add_filter( ‘user_meta_field_config’, ‘user_meta_field_config_function’, 10, 3 );
function user_meta_field_config_function( $field, $fieldID, $formName )
{
// Check for date fiels
switch ($fieldID)
{
case 13:
// DOB — Assume someone between 16-100 years old
// allow selection of year field
// NOTE: To get 4-digit century, use “yy.” Using “yyyy” produces erroneous results
$field[‘field_options’] = array( “yearRange”=>”-100:-16″, “changeYear”=>true,”dateFormat”=>”yy-mm-dd” );
break;
case 14:
// Membersip date – Assume nothing older than 1972
// allow selection of year field
// NOTE: To get 4-digit century, use “yy.” Using “yyyy” produces erroneous results
$field[‘field_options’] = array( “yearRange”=>”1972:c”, “changeYear”=>true,”dateFormat”=>”yy-mm-dd” );
break;

}

return $field;
}

PACC, thanks so much.

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