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Siewake
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May 14, 2020

Sharepoint List Web Part says the Year 1899 from internal Created Date - worked, but now its 1899

Hi, I've tried to find the answer for this problem and while I find the same symptom, I can't find anyone with the same problem/solution.

 

We have a sharepoint site that collects hours from a number of sources for a live time logging system, up until yesterday things were find then 5 date submissions all show in a web part as having the date 31/12/1899, which as i read is the expected behaviour when using a blank date field. However this field looks at the system 'Created' field, therefore cannot be blank and when looked at outside the web part, in the list view the dates are fine. Strangely the web part still see's the entries as the most recent as this view is sorted by the created date.

 

Any insights you may have would be greatly appreciated, I'm pretty sure my team aren't working in the Victorian age. Thank you.

 

 

    • Siewake's avatar
      Siewake
      Copper Contributor

      Bruno AleixoYes it does, setting to a locale with a US style date format displays the inteded result (2020!) for that locale. Thank you for taking the time to answer here. It doesn't exactly solve my problem but it gives me hope that there is a simple solution here. I'm trying to get the UK version. I've tried a few so far, hopefully I'll find one that I can just put up with. Thanks for the pointer.

      • Bruno Aleixo's avatar
        Bruno Aleixo
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        Siewake thanks. we are working on a fix for this issue and should be fixed soon. While that does not happen the workaround is the best option.

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