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icon5.gif   Type <attribute> = Date - Issue, posted by Garret Delaronde on Fri Sep 7 18:19:38 2012 
    icon2.gif   Re: Type <attribute> = Date - Issue, posted by David Pilgram on Fri Sep 7 19:08:27 2012 
       icon2.gif   Re: Type <attribute> = Date - Issue, posted by Garret Delaronde on Mon Sep 10 17:18:03 2012 
    icon2.gif   Re: Type <attribute> = Date - Issue, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Sep 12 10:50:40 2012 
Message ID: 67332     Entry time: Fri Sep 7 19:08:27 2012     In reply to: 67331     Reply to this: 67333
Icon: Reply  Author: David Pilgram  Author Email: David.Pilgram@epost.org.uk 
Category: Bug report  OS: Windows  ELOG Version: 2.9 
Subject: Re: Type <attribute> = Date - Issue 

Garret Delaronde wrote:

 I haven't found anything in the forums about this. Apologies if its a duplicate.

I am fairly familiar with ELog, use it for multiple purposes on 5 different Virtual Servers at work. 

Currently looking to do some updates to one of the instances with the Date Type setting.

We have 17,000 entries all which have had manual entries for a Date Attribute for the last year and 8 months.

Due to regular entry errors on part of our contractors using it, (Eg: using "Aug" instead of "08", or using "-" instead of "/"), I want to change over to using the date type attribute (Type <attribute> = Date).

However the problem i found, the moment i save this in the config, and go to the list of entries, the date has changed on all of the entries to 12/31/1969. Which is BAD for our operation. So after removing the Type Date Setting the dates go back to normal.

Is there anyway to retain those dates so they display as they are and then only new entries would fall under the new date type setting?

Syntax manual didn't help much for this issue.

 Hi Garret,

Why cannot you just use $entry time ?  It uses the date that the entry was made which appears as the first line of every elog entry -

[Sorry for mis-post, just discovered cannot put the 'dollar at' control set in an entry]

MID: 12458
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:22:06 +0100
In reply to: 12453
 

You can use 'Time format = ' to get the date to display in the format you like.  You will see I have posted an issue about 'Date format = '.  I mention this because in trying to understand what was happening, I too had a case where all the dates were showing as the same in a thread.  I suspect your 12/31/1969 was due to the entries as being read were non-existant or blank.

Of course I may have mis-understood your requirements.

 

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