diff -Nurp ../date.orig/date/date_admin.inc ./date/date_admin.inc
--- ../date.orig/date/date_admin.inc	2010-04-15 08:08:56.000000000 -0500
+++ ./date/date_admin.inc	2010-04-15 08:10:30.000000000 -0500
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ function _date_widget_settings($op, &$fi
       return date_widget_settings_form($field);
 
     case 'save':
-      return array('default_value', 'default_value_code', 'default_value2', 'default_value_code2', 'input_format', 'input_format_custom', 'increment', 'text_parts', 'year_range', 'label_position');
+      return array('default_value', 'default_value_code', 'default_value2', 'default_value_code2', 'size', 'input_format', 'input_format_custom', 'increment', 'text_parts', 'year_range', 'label_position');
 
     case 'validate':
       if ($field['default_value'] == 'strtotime') {
@@ -110,6 +110,14 @@ function date_widget_settings_form($widg
   foreach ($formats as $f) {
     $options[$f] = date_format_date($now, 'custom', $f);
   }
+  $size = (isset($widget['size']) && is_numeric($widget['size'])) ? $widget['size'] : 60;
+    $form['input']['size'] = array(
+      '#type' => 'textfield',
+      '#title' => t('Size of textfield'),
+      '#default_value' => $size,
+      '#element_validate' => array('_element_validate_integer_positive'),
+      '#required' => TRUE,
+    );
   $form['input']['input_format'] = array(
     '#type' => 'select', '#title' => t('Input format'),
     '#default_value' => !empty($widget['input_format']) ? $widget['input_format'] : $default_format,
@@ -713,4 +721,4 @@ function _date_formatter_settings($form_
       );  
   }
   return $form;
-}
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+}
diff -Nurp ../date.orig/date_api_elements.inc ./date_api_elements.inc
--- ../date.orig/date_api_elements.inc	2010-04-15 08:08:56.000000000 -0500
+++ ./date_api_elements.inc	2010-04-15 08:11:54.000000000 -0500
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ function date_text_process($element, $ed
 
   $element['date']['#type'] = 'textfield';
   $element['date']['#weight'] = !empty($element['date']['#weight']) ? $element['date']['#weight'] : $element['#weight'];
+  $element['date']['#size'] =  !empty($element['date']['#size']) ? $element['date']['#size'] : $element['#field']['widget']['size'];
   $element['date']['#default_value'] = is_object($date) ? date_format($date , $element['#date_format']) : '';
   $element['date']['#attributes'] = array('class' => (isset($element['#attributes']['class']) ? $element['#attributes']['class'] : '') .' date-date');
   $element['date']['#description'] = ' '. t('Format: @date', array('@date' => date($element['#date_format'], time())));
@@ -659,4 +660,4 @@ function date_convert_from_custom($date,
   // Don't test for valid date, we might use this to extract
   // incomplete date part info from user input.
   return date_convert($final_date, DATE_ARRAY, DATE_DATETIME);
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}