Edit Metadata: Date: default date is December 31, 100

Bug #2043930 reported by Peter Morris
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Bug Description

Summary says it all. When I attempt to alter the date, the field defaults to Dec 31 100 and cannot be changed except by laboriously scrolling forward on the calendar field for a couple of thousand years...

Version : 7.0

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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote :

WHat exactly are you doing to attempt to alter it and have you change
the value of the gui_pubdate_display_format tweak in Prferences->Tweaks
and if so to what

Changed in calibre:
status: New → Incomplete
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Deirdre Wall (dwall) wrote :

I have the same issue when I go to change the book's date in its metadata by first using the trash icon to clear the existing date. See the screenshot.

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Deirdre Wall (dwall) wrote :
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Deirdre Wall (dwall) wrote :

Doesn't seem like it's a duplicate issue when I view https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2043998 🤷‍♀️

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