Chinese character in date picker

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June 16, 2021 at 5:32 PM #28940

chillifish
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There is a Chinese character appearing in my datepicker. I'm not sure why this is… screenshot here.

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June 16, 2021 at 10:20 PM #28946

Long Nguyen
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Hi,

It might relate to the language or a plugin activated on your site. Please go to Settings > General > Site language: English, deactivate all plugins except Meta Box, and re-check the issue.

You can also share the JS options of the date field, I will test the options on my end.

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June 16, 2021 at 10:36 PM #28947

chillifish
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You're right, I should have checked plugins. It's clashing with the Formidable Forms plugin. When I disable that the colour of the datepicker changes and the whole thing looks smarter.

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June 16, 2021 at 10:40 PM #28949

chillifish
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Thinking about it, there's a datepicker form on that page, which is loading the preview text for the datepicker, so I guess that's where it's picking up the styling from.

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June 17, 2021 at 4:55 PM #28957

chillifish
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Also, it seems to be unrelated as it still happens with the formidable plugin deactivated, but the 'save_format' setting is being ignored. This is causing issues with date interpretations.

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June 17, 2021 at 4:56 PM #28958
chillifish
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Settings below:
```
array(
    'name'            => esc_html__( 'To date', 'textdomain' ),
    'id'          => $prefix . 'to_date',
    'desc'            => esc_html__( 'End of date range', 'textdomain' ),
    'type'            => 'date',
     // Date picker options. See here http://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker
     'js_options' => array(
                        'dateFormat'  => 'dd/mm/yy',
                        'changeMonth' => true,
                        'changeYear'  => true,
                         ),
    'save_format' => 'yy-mm-dd',
),
```
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June 22, 2021 at 12:51 AM #29049

chillifish
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Can anyone help me with the Date Format issue? It's causing me real problems and I need to make the site live.

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June 22, 2021 at 12:22 PM #29054
Long Nguyen
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Hi,

Can you please let me know which wrong with the setting save_format? The format of the date should be
```
array(
    'name'            => esc_html__( 'To date', 'textdomain' ),
    'id'          => $prefix . 'to_date',
    'desc'            => esc_html__( 'End of date range', 'textdomain' ),
    'type'            => 'date',
     // Date picker options. See here http://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker
     'js_options' => array(
                        'dateFormat'  => 'd/m/y',
                        'changeMonth' => true,
                        'changeYear'  => true,
                         ),
    'save_format' => 'Y-m-d',
),
```
Get more details here https://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_date_format.asp

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June 22, 2021 at 2:14 PM #29057

chillifish
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Hi, yes, the save_format is 'Y-m-d', but the date is being saved as d/m/y. This is causing an issue with strtotime on the front end.

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June 23, 2021 at 7:43 AM #29074

Long Nguyen
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Hi,

The function strtotime() parse the text date time to Unix timestamp. You can use the setting 'timestamp' => true to save the timestamp value to the database. Please get more details on the documentation https://docs.metabox.io/fields/datetime/#settings

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