[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Custom Date Future Date Problem ## - **[dselby](/forum/user/32169-dselby "View dselby's Profile")** - [![dselby's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/32169-dselby "View dselby's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/32169-dselby) Less More - Posts: 5 - Thank you received: 0 - - 12 years 5 months ago [\#158513](#158513) by [dselby](/forum/user/32169-dselby "View dselby's Profile") *[Custom Date Future Date Problem](/forum/27-checkout/868714-custom-date-future-date-problem#158513 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : www.easynetresults.com (test site) -- HikaShop version -- : Hikashop Business: 2.3.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.2.3 -- PHP version -- : 5.3.28 Hi I am almost ready to put this site but having a couple of issues, one of which is ensuring that a delivery date is in the future. I just went on your demo website and checked your back-end and you have set the field "Delivery Date" to be required and to must be set in the future. However I was able to enter a delivery date in the past on your site through the front-end without any problem. The check did not work. Delivery Date is very important to our business as we are delivering fresh products which must be kept cool so we need to make sure that the customer has got the correct delivery date. Although I have set my date field to be required and to NOT have a default date, it keeps defaulting to 1 January 1970. I have made it not-required, saved and reset, but still there. I have also created new field and still there. I have changed the formatting of the date and this has not made any difference. I can set the default date to today + waiting time but what concerns me is that I won't know if the client actually chose that date or whether the system set it as default. Please can you help me? Thanks so much")* was created by *[dselby](/forum/user/32169-dselby "View dselby's Profile")* -- url of the page with the problem -- : [ www.easynetresults.com](http://www.easynetresults.com) (test site) -- HikaShop version -- : Hikashop Business: 2.3.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.2.3 -- PHP version -- : 5.3.28 Hi I am almost ready to put this site but having a couple of issues, one of which is ensuring that a delivery date is in the future. I just went on your demo website and checked your back-end and you have set the field "Delivery Date" to be required and to must be set in the future. However I was able to enter a delivery date in the past on your site through the front-end without any problem. The check did not work. Delivery Date is very important to our business as we are delivering fresh products which must be kept cool so we need to make sure that the customer has got the correct delivery date. Although I have set my date field to be required and to NOT have a default date, it keeps defaulting to 1 January 1970. I have made it not-required, saved and reset, but still there. I have also created new field and still there. I have changed the formatting of the date and this has not made any difference. I can set the default date to today + waiting time but what concerns me is that I won't know if the client actually chose that date or whether the system set it as default. Please can you help me? Thanks so much Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzI3LWNoZWNrb3V0Lzg2ODcxNC1jdXN0b20tZGF0ZS1mdXR1cmUtZGF0ZS1wcm9ibGVtP3RtcGw9bWFya2Rvd24=) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[dselby](/forum/user/32169-dselby "View dselby's Profile")** - [![dselby's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/32169-dselby "View dselby's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/32169-dselby) Less More - Posts: 5 - Thank you received: 0 - - 12 years 5 months ago [\#158517](#158517) by [dselby](/forum/user/32169-dselby "View dselby's Profile") Replied by *[dselby](/forum/user/32169-dselby "View dselby's Profile")* on topic *[Custom Date Future Date Problem](/forum/27-checkout/868714-custom-date-future-date-problem#158517 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : www.easynetresults.com (test site) -- HikaShop version -- : Hikashop Business: 2.3.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.2.3 -- PHP version -- : 5.3.28 Hi I am almost ready to put this site but having a couple of issues, one of which is ensuring that a delivery date is in the future. I just went on your demo website and checked your back-end and you have set the field "Delivery Date" to be required and to must be set in the future. However I was able to enter a delivery date in the past on your site through the front-end without any problem. The check did not work. Delivery Date is very important to our business as we are delivering fresh products which must be kept cool so we need to make sure that the customer has got the correct delivery date. Although I have set my date field to be required and to NOT have a default date, it keeps defaulting to 1 January 1970. I have made it not-required, saved and reset, but still there. I have also created new field and still there. I have changed the formatting of the date and this has not made any difference. I can set the default date to today + waiting time but what concerns me is that I won't know if the client actually chose that date or whether the system set it as default. Please can you help me? Thanks so much")* I have got a bit of a work-around which was to add the date 01/01/1970 in the excepted dates section, which now gives an error, but it is a bit of a clunky workaround. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzI3LWNoZWNrb3V0Lzg2ODcxNC1jdXN0b20tZGF0ZS1mdXR1cmUtZGF0ZS1wcm9ibGVtP3RtcGw9bWFya2Rvd24=) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[Mohamed Thelji](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile")** - [![Mohamed Thelji's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar6861.png)](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji) Less More - Posts: 12953 - Thank you received: 1778 - - - 12 years 5 months ago [\#158556](#158556) by [Mohamed Thelji](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile") Replied by *[Mohamed Thelji](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile")* on topic *[Custom Date Future Date Problem](/forum/27-checkout/868714-custom-date-future-date-problem#158556 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : www.easynetresults.com (test site) -- HikaShop version -- : Hikashop Business: 2.3.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.2.3 -- PHP version -- : 5.3.28 Hi I am almost ready to put this site but having a couple of issues, one of which is ensuring that a delivery date is in the future. I just went on your demo website and checked your back-end and you have set the field "Delivery Date" to be required and to must be set in the future. However I was able to enter a delivery date in the past on your site through the front-end without any problem. The check did not work. Delivery Date is very important to our business as we are delivering fresh products which must be kept cool so we need to make sure that the customer has got the correct delivery date. Although I have set my date field to be required and to NOT have a default date, it keeps defaulting to 1 January 1970. I have made it not-required, saved and reset, but still there. I have also created new field and still there. I have changed the formatting of the date and this has not made any difference. I can set the default date to today + waiting time but what concerns me is that I won't know if the client actually chose that date or whether the system set it as default. Please can you help me? Thanks so much")* Hello, I think that the solution will probably be to use the "HikaShop: Date Picker Custom Field" plugin, and to change the type of your custom field to "datepicker" Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzI3LWNoZWNrb3V0Lzg2ODcxNC1jdXN0b20tZGF0ZS1mdXR1cmUtZGF0ZS1wcm9ibGVtP3RtcGw9bWFya2Rvd24=) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. Board Categories HikaShop Install & Update Product & Category Display Content Creation Sales and Orders Orders management Reports & Statistics Customers Checkout Payment Methods Shipping Methods Import & Export (CSV, XLS…) Specific Features Affilation Taxes Wishlist Vote Carousel & Slider Mass Actions Filters & Search Discount & Coupon Feature Request Integrations Showcase General Talk about HikaShop Development HikaShop 3.0 Beta Translation Commercial Jobs HikaShop Components HikaMarket Market: Feature requests Market: How to? 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