Custom Field 'Date' value not saving as yyyy-mm-dd

actually, it’s getting saved to the database as 10/26/2013 (mm/dd/yyyy).

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When I set the date format to yy-mm-dd, the date appears the way I want it (2013-10-16) when I enter a date in the WPUF Custom Fields Meta Box from the backend post edit page.

However, from the front-end post edit, the date still gets formatted as 10/16/2013.

Seems like no matter what date format I set in the backend setting, WPUF formats the date as 10/16/2013 in the front end and saves it at that.

Anyone have any idea what’s going on here?

@aburi –

all you have to do set date format – yy/mm/dd

NOT – yy-mm-dd

@mahi, Thanks for the reply.

That saves the date as “10/17/2013”, not “2013-10-12”, which is what I want.

I have a search from that searches by date and it works in the latter format, so I’m trying to get WPUF to save in that format.

Any other ideas?

Anybody any other ideas here? Still trying to figure this out.

I am interested in an answer to this also. I want to use the Buddypress Profile Integration add-on for a dating site that has a date range search, but the documentation says that the date has to be input in a specific format. Buddypress default uses dd-month-yyyy.
This is key to my site success so any direction on whether this works or not would be appreciated. If I figure it out I will post the answer here.

@aburi – sorry for long delay! wondering have you found any solution on this?
perhaps @tareq can help you?

@hughs – Buddypress default uses yyyy-month-dd not dd-month-yyyy :), thats why you have to configure that way. In standalone WPUF-pro you can use any format.

thanks @Mahi for writing back.

Still looking for an answer to this. The main issue seems to be the front-end form saving the date as “mm/dd/yyyy″, not “yyyy-mm-dd″.

When I save the date in the WPUF custom field box from the back-end, it saves correctly as “yyyy-mm-dd”. So something with the front-end form going on here.

Any help would be great as each time someone creates a new post, I have to go in and re-edit their date from the backend.

Alex

Anyone have a moment to take a look at this – would appreciate it.

Alex

Hello Alex,

Not sure why you are saying different way! But, i can see it saves yyyy-mm-dd or dd-mm-yyyy or whatever format you like !

It uses hash ( – ) not backslash (/) !
Or, i am missing something?

Turned out to be an issue with the datepicker js I was using with my twitter bootstrap. It was altering the date format somehow!

so fixed now…

alex

Thats good to know that issue been solved. Cheers.