Cannot set a date field to 01/01/1399

This might help you on how to deal with an extended date range: :)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2871264/using-strtotime-for-dates-before-1970

strtotime is used more than 30 times. I cannot change it. This will lead to unstable version of date field. Unfortunately I have to postpone it to Cobalt 9.

I was thinking rather of a completely different field. e.g. LongDate that you could even sell separately :) In this way you keep the compatibility and only those who actually need a LongDate would use it...

Agree. But current field is based on Mootools. And by Joomla 4 or may be even 3.5 who knows we will have to totally get rid of it. So there have to field that will completely replace current field.

So, in other situation I might do what you suggested, but in this situation I will simply need to refactor this field as it is going to be deprecated anyway.

If you could pack the date field up as a "LongDate" field and refactor the first occurrence, I'll refactor the rest over the weekend :)

It might be half and year to an year until Cobalt 9 so I would get good use out of it.

PS You may name the field anything else you prefer :)

have you looked in that field code? I consider this is the most complex field. Not only change strtotime to data_create but also change data selector element. it is not hard for me to create field copy, you can do it yourself by simply coping field folder and changing field class name. That is it.

Then you just looks through all files for strtotime function and change it.

But I am not sure that will solve the problem. There are so many other things involved. But you can try.