Selecting a date older then 1900? (8.2.x) [#2840185]

Hi,

At this moment i'm creating a familiy tree on Drupal version 8.2.4
I use the book page node for this, and added 2 date fields that can be selected.
One is the birth date, the other is the death date.

But i'm running into the problem that i can not select dates before 1900.
An when creating a familiy tree for genelogy, you quickly need dates from 16-17th century.

When i try to enter the date manually, like 1765, the field does not accept the date.
I need to input a "valid date".

I did found some (very) old topic concerning dates before 1900.
https://www.drupal.org/node/180223
https://wunder.io/blog/storing-very-old-historical-dates/2008-02-06

Almost all topics are suggesting using the Date module, but that is part of the core now.
I downloaded the adodb_date_library (adodb-time.inc.php), but i have no idea how to use it in D8.

Is there any way to change the date selection restriction beyond (before) a value of 1900?

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Comment #1

31 December 2016 at 11:22

VBN created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

mpdonadio

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CreditAttribution: mpdonadio at DiD Agency commented 31 December 2016 at 18:01

Status:	Active	» Closed (duplicate)
Related issues:		+#2795489: 2038 bug with PHP timestamps on 32-bit systems - warn users?

This is more than likely a duplicate of #2795489: 2038 bug with PHP timestamps on 32-bit systems - warn users?.

Comment #3

mpdonadio

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CreditAttribution: mpdonadio at DiD Agency commented 31 December 2016 at 18:18

Status:

Closed (duplicate)

» Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Actually, can you provide a few more details here

What OS are you on, and are you using a special Drupal distro like Acquia Dev Desktop?

What browser are you using?

What type of field are you using (timestamp, datetime, or daterange)?

What field entry widget are you using (select list or date and time) on admin/structure/types/manage/page/form-display (or whatever content type you are using)?

When you are using the select list widget, the years are limited by default to 1900-2050. The easy way around this is to use the "date and time" widget, which seems to ignore the min/max dates (which looks like is a bug...)

Comment #4

mpdonadio

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CreditAttribution: mpdonadio at DiD Agency commented 31 December 2016 at 18:49

May also be caused by #2840220: "Date and time" Form API element allows entry beyond min/max values, which is definitely a bug

Comment #5

VBN CreditAttribution: VBN as a volunteer commented 2 January 2017 at 01:43

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1. The website is already online, no local dev software like Acquia used. running win 10.
2. Browser: Google chrome, same results in firefox.
3. field used: Date. (date only)
4. I used the 'select list' before, and that was limited to 1900.
I changed it to 'date and time' widget, like you suggested, and i can go further back in time.
This time i don't use the selector, but enter the date manually by typing it into the field.
On creating the node, the date is accepted and saved.

But there is still a bug...
When i edit the node again and change the year number, there is a notification on save that reads:
"Value must be 01 Jan 1899 or later."
Even when it was initially saved before 1899.

value...