Report template editor calendar starts at 1970

[Beth Willis]

EG 2.12.2

In the XUL client, if you create a report template with a date filter and attempt to input a value for that filter, the calendar widget does not allow entry of a date prior to 01-01-1970. This limitation seems arbitrary and causes a problem when creating certain types of reports. For example, in this case I am trying to create a recurring report to check for potentially erroneous patron dates of birth. So, the initial date in the filter range needs to be much earlier than 1970.

[Mike Rylander (mrylander)]

Adding background info...

This is a limitation imposed by Javascript and the tools used in the XUL interface. Javascript's Date object has a "beginning of time" of Jan 1, 1970 (its epoch). The date picker uses Date objects internally, rather that free-form strings, to represent the date selected by the user.

I don't yet know if it would be possible to handle dates before the JS epoch in the web staff client, but it probably is not currently.

[Andrea Neiman (aneiman)]

Looked at this in 3.2 and despite Reports being the ported interface I can in fact set pre-1970 dates on a date filter. Tagging fixedinwebby, but not marking won't fix yet in case there's something I'm misunderstanding.

[Dawn Dale (ddale)]

I agree Andrea, I believe this is fixed in webby. I can run reports with birth dates before 1970 in webby. I am going to mark this one won't fix.