Year: Default Blank, get's set to NOW if left null.

I leave the field blank, and the year gets set to 2009. Edit the node, delete the year and year gets set to 2009.

K will test

No Fix in dev. Yes I would like it to respect the default value set in admin/content/node-type/*/fields/field_*. Sorry about not answering your question the first time.

Here's the export with only this field selected

$content[type]  = array (
  'name' => 'Inventory',
  'type' => 'inventory',
  'description' => 'add inventory',
  'title_label' => 'Title',
  'body_label' => '',
  'min_word_count' => '0',
  'help' => '',
  'node_options' => 
  array (
    'status' => true,
    'revision' => true,
    'promote' => false,
    'sticky' => false,
  ),
  'upload' => '1',
  'nodewords' => 1,
  'search_block' => '0',
  'old_type' => 'inventory',
  'orig_type' => '',
  'module' => 'node',
  'custom' => '1',
  'modified' => '1',
  'locked' => '0',
  'ant' => '1',
  'ant_pattern' => '[field_manufacturer-term] - [field_model-formatted] [field_years-view]',
  'ant_php' => 0,
  'xmlsitemap_node_type_priority' => '0.4',
  'xmlsitemap_old_priority' => '0.4',
);
$content[fields]  = array (
  0 => 
  array (
    'label' => 'Year',
    'field_name' => 'field_years',
    'type' => 'date',
    'widget_type' => 'date_text',
    'change' => 'Change basic information',
    'weight' => '100',
    'default_value' => 'blank',
    'default_value2' => 'blank',
    'default_value_code' => '',
    'default_value_code2' => '',
    'input_format' => 'Y-m-d H:i:s',
    'input_format_custom' => '',
    'advanced' => 
    array (
      'label_position' => 'above',
      'text_parts' => 
      array (
        'year' => 0,
        'month' => 0,
        'day' => 0,
        'hour' => 0,
        'minute' => 0,
        'second' => 0,
      ),
    ),
    'increment' => '10',
    'year_range' => '-50:+3',
    'label_position' => 'above',
    'text_parts' => 
    array (
    ),
    'description' => '',
    'group' => 'group_extra_info',
    'required' => 0,
    'multiple' => '0',
    'repeat' => 0,
    'todate' => '',
    'granularity' => 
    array (
      'year' => 'year',
    ),
    'default_format' => 'field_years_long',
    'tz_handling' => 'none',
    'timezone_db' => '',
    'op' => 'Save field settings',
    'module' => 'date',
    'widget_module' => 'date',
    'columns' => 
    array (
      'value' => 
      array (
        'type' => 'varchar',
        'length' => 20,
        'not null' => false,
        'sortable' => true,
        'views' => true,
      ),
    ),
    'display_settings' => 
    array (
      'weight' => '100',
      'parent' => 'group_extra_info',
      'label' => 
      array (
        'format' => 'inline',
      ),
      'teaser' => 
      array (
        'format' => 'field_years_long',
        'exclude' => 0,
      ),
      'full' => 
      array (
        'format' => 'field_years_long',
        'exclude' => 0,
      ),
      2 => 
      array (
        'format' => 'long',
        'exclude' => 0,
      ),
      3 => 
      array (
        'format' => 'long',
        'exclude' => 0,
      ),
      'token' => 
      array (
        'format' => 'long',
        'exclude' => 0,
      ),
      4 => 
      array (
        'format' => 'long',
        'exclude' => 0,
      ),
    ),
  ),
);
$content[extra]  = array (
  'title' => '3',
  'menu' => '2',
  'taxonomy' => '4',
  'attachments' => '15',
  'taxonomy_field_2' => '9',
  'taxonomy_field_4' => '6',
  'taxonomy_field_9' => '10',
  'taxonomy_field_6' => '7',
  'taxonomy_field_7' => '8',
  'taxonomy_field_1' => '11',
  'taxonomy_field_3' => '5',
  'taxonomy_field_12' => '12',
);

I was using stable 2.0, sorry about the mis tag

#398258: field with "blank" default value automatically filled as "2009-01-01"