Years get a year subtracted on submit

By the way, this happens every time the node gets submitted, including if it gets edited. So for example, if the node was created with 2008 in field_date and submitted, it would say 2007; if it was then edited and re-submitted (but the date wasn't changed) it would say 2006; and so on. This is something of a problem because I have a user that's going to be repeatedly editing each node.

Specifically, I discovered that the date gets assigned to 30 Nov [Inputted Year - 1] 00:00:00 GMT which is quite strange.

After more exploration, I think this occurs in date_api.module in the function date_diff().

Lines 732-736:

        else {
          $item_diff = 12 - $item1;
          $item_diff += intval(($year_diff - 1) * 12);
          return $item_diff + $item2;
       }

That's the only place in date_api.module or date.module that I can find where 1 might possibly be subtracted from the year.

Tested the latest 2.x dev. This is so weird.

When a node is first created, no matter what year is put in, the result is the year 1970. When it's updated, the year increments by one - the opposite behavior from before.

I am very confused.

Updating to dev, even though it really applies to all 2.x releases.

All I get when I go to export the field is this message:

This feature is not yet functional.

...but I think I have something significantly wrong with my Date installation. Maybe an extraneous file from an earlier version is still there messing things up. I'll retry everything and see how it goes.

Okay, I just removed the date module folder and put in a fresh copy of it from d.o - I have the same problem. I didn't want to uninstall because I wasn't sure if the data from my nodes would be erased.

Since I updated from 2.0rc to 2.x-dev though, it's gone back to 1.x behavior (i.e. no dates allowed before 1970). That makes me think there's a larger problem here.

You told me to try 2.x-dev, so I did. I'm using this one.

Attached is a screenshot of my modules page.

EDIT: I tried this with and without the Date Popup module enabled. Right now it's disabled. Also, I've added a screenshot of the date field's settings page.

No one ever told me it was *Content Copy* and not *Date Copy* that had to be enabled (by the way, I had Date Copy enabled but I disabled it before taking that shot). :D

Here's the export.

See also my last post--I added a screenshot of the date field's settings page.

$content[type]  = array (
  'name' => 'Date',
  'type' => 'date',
  'description' => '',
  'title_label' => 'Title',
  'body_label' => 'Description',
  'min_word_count' => '0',
  'help' => '',
  'node_options' => 
  array (
    'status' => true,
    'promote' => false,
    'sticky' => false,
    'revision' => false,
  ),
  'old_type' => 'date',
  'orig_type' => '',
  'module' => 'node',
  'custom' => '1',
  'modified' => '1',
  'locked' => '0',
);
$content[fields]  = array (
  0 => 
  array (
    'widget_type' => 'date_text',
    'label' => 'Date',
    'weight' => '0',
    'default_value' => 'blank',
    'default_value_code' => '',
    'default_value2' => 'same',
    'default_value_code2' => '',
    'input_format' => 'Y-m-d H:i:s',
    'input_format_custom' => 'Y',
    'advanced' => 
    array (
      'label_position' => 'within',
      'text_parts' => 
      array (
        'year' => 0,
        'month' => 0,
        'day' => 0,
        'hour' => 0,
        'minute' => 0,
        'second' => 0,
      ),
    ),
    'increment' => 1,
    'year_range' => '-3:+3',
    'description' => '',
    'required' => '1',
    'multiple' => '0',
    'repeat' => 0,
    'todate' => 'optional',
    'granularity' => 
    array (
      'year' => true,
      0 => 1,
      'month' => false,
      'day' => false,
      'hour' => false,
      'minute' => false,
      'second' => false,
    ),
    'output_format_date' => 'Y M j',
    'output_format_custom' => 'Y',
    'output_format_date_long' => 'l, F j, Y - H:i',
    'output_format_custom_long' => 'Y',
    'output_format_date_medium' => 'Y, F j - g:ia',
    'output_format_custom_medium' => 'Y',
    'output_format_date_short' => 'Y M j - H:i',
    'output_format_custom_short' => 'Y',
    'tz_handling' => 'none',
    'timezone_db' => 'UTC',
    'field_name' => 'field_datestart',
    'field_type' => 'date',
    'module' => 'date',
    'label_position' => 'within',
    'text_parts' => 
    array (
    ),
    'display_settings' => 
    array (
      'label' => 
      array (
        'format' => 'inline',
      ),
      'teaser' => 
      array (
        'format' => 'hidden',
      ),
      'full' => 
      array (
        'format' => 'default',
      ),
    ),
  ),
);

This is really annoying.

I use date on another of my websites, and I'm using the same version of the module on that site as the one I'm having the problem with; but on my other site, it's working just fine.

...I'll work on trying to figure out what's different. Thanks for any help so far, and of course I'm still interested in any comments, questions, or solutions you might have.

I tried what you said. I also tried changing some settings, saving, then changing them back. The zero is still there.

Then I removed the zero manually from the text and imported the result into a new field for the Page content type. The same thing was happening, so I exported the field from the Page content type - and the zero had reappeared.

Will I lose any data from existing nodes if I uninstall (and then reinstall) Date? Will that even help anything?

Well, I haven't been able to find any differences between my sites that would affect Date.

I don't know much PHP, but let me know if there's anything more I can do.

A possible clue: I upgraded to the latest dev version just now and ran update.php, which gave these errors:

    * warning: include_once(./modules/cck/includes/content.admin.inc) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/[root]/domains/[domain]/public_html/[subdomain]/modules/date/date/date.install on line 8.
    * warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening './modules/cck/includes/content.admin.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/[root]/domains/[domain]/public_html/[subdomain]/modules/date/date/date.install on line 8.
    * warning: include_once(./modules/cck/includes/content.admin.inc) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/[root]/domains/[domain]/public_html/[subdomain]/modules/date/date/date.install on line 8.
    * warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening './modules/cck/includes/content.admin.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/[root]/domains/[domain]/public_html/[subdomain]/modules/date/date/date.install on line 8.