When I enter a value in the Date field, it doesn't store the value I entered but instead it stores the current date and time. It used to work before, even with 5.x-2.3. The only thing that has changed recently is that I updated jQuery Update (from 1.0 to 2.0).
I also tried to use the Date Popup, but that doesn't work for me (see http://drupal.org/node/259681). I don't know whether enabling and subsequently disabling the date popup is the source of the problem. I'm note sure whether or not I created new nodes with a date field after having tried that (I thought I did but know I'm not so sure anymore).
If you need any information I'll be happy to supply it. I hope you can help solve this as it really is an annoying problem.

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pvanderspek’s picture

pvanderspek commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Ok, I don't know what happened. Maybe it was just a caching problem in my browser. In any case, everything works fine again.

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pvanderspek commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

The problem seems to be a coming and going. Currently it's back again and I have no clue as to what might be causing it. It stopped for a couple of days, but now it's back (was it actually gone to being with??) and I'm 100% sure I didn't change anything to Drupal or my browser.
Does anyone have a suggestion how to debug this problem?

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pvanderspek commented

Ok, now I know I don't understand the problem. I've changed the input type from a simple text field to a set of selection boxes and now I can enter dates just fine. How can that be?!

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karens commented
Title: Date field always stores current date » Text cate field always stores current date
Category: support » bug
Priority: Critical » Normal

If it seems broken only when using a text field, it may be a bug in the text field widget. I'll mark it that way. Any information you can provide about exactly how you have your field set up when it's broken would help to debug it.

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karens commented
Title: Text cate field always stores current date » Text date field always stores current date
pvanderspek’s picture

pvanderspek commented

I hope the information below helps.

Widget: Text Field with custom input format
Default value: Now
Customize default value: default values
Input format: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
Custom input format: d-m-Y H.i
Years back and forward: -3:+3
Time increment: 1
Data settings: field is set required
Multiple: never
To date: never
Granularity: year, month, date, hour, minute
Date display: dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm
Additional display settings: default values
Time zone: site's time zone

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fmitchell commented

I am also seeing this issue on -dev D6. I changed it to a select drop down and it works fine. The date was storing fine, but the time would not store at all.

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karens commented

This is partly because of #303951: Allow both 9/4/2008 and 09/04/2008, which I just fixed. In the process of fixing that I see that when the date is invalid it is defaulting back to today's date instead of flagging an error, so I need to fix that next.

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karens commented
Status: Active » Fixed

The problem is coming from the code added to use strtotime to try to guess a valid date value from whatever is input (#265076: Accept text input that omits hour & minute, even if the format expects it). In way too many cases it ends up silently failing and converting the date to 'now'.

I'm going to revert that change and reopen that issue and try to find another way to do that.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

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dakku commented

any update on this? I am stuck with the same issue!

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dakku commented

reinstalled the latest version and the issue is fixed. thanks