Formatting date 11/11/11 gives 11/11/1911 instead of 2011

When setting a field to be formatted as mm/dd/yyyy and if user enters 11/11/11 it formats as 11/11/1911 instead of 11/11/2011 which makes more sense.
How can this be fixed. ?

I already downloaded the latest version of the extension but still no luck.

This is in an ASP page.

Aleks

Are you using a client side or server side validation for this? Is this an asp vb or asp js type page?

It is under tag inspector, so I dont know which one is it, I am guessing client side. and is in both ASP Javascript AND VBscript.

Any news on this ?

Unfortunately this is how both client and server side javascripts interprit 2 digit years.

The convention is to use 4 digit years after the year 2000... so any 2 digit years it assumes are from the 1900's.

You say that the year 11 should logically be 2011, but that isn't true if you are asking for a birth date. Also consider all of the years where the year 11 logically meant 1911... it was like that untill the great Y2K scare. Since nobody wanted to go back and correct all of the dates in the past, the solution is to always use a 4 digit date moving forward.

My best suggestion is to use a 4 digit date and to require one. The only other solution would be to create a custom script that parsed the entered date as a string and converted 2 digit dates to 4 digit dates automatically, but we don't supply that code so it would have to be custom written.

In the page where I have the reformatting selected they use this for 'passport expiration date', 'document expiration', or even recent travel dates, NONE of which will be in 1911 !!
So it goes both ways. It would be very useful if when we select reformatting from when they type : 11/11/11 we could select if it should reformat to 1911 or 2011 (somehow), this way you got both scenarios covered.
Is there a way to do this or tweak your reformatting ? otherwise Ill have to get rid of it.

There is no way to tweak it without editing and understanding javascript. The traditional solution is to force a 4 digit date, otherwise your database and any other application will understand year 11 to be 1911.

You can of course remove the reformatting, which should be in the onblur event.

Is there a way to change the javascript to use 2011 instead ? I dont know that many people who would fill out a form and enter 1911 as their DOB .. my guess is they would have a hard time seeing the screen.

This is just how javascript understands dates...

You'd find even less that were born in 2011... I'm sure they couldn't see a screen.

You could create a dropdown list instead of having them type in a date.

The reality is that if you looked at every time in history someone has referred to a date with '11 as the year... the majority are still talking about 1911. The standard is to use a four digit date after the year 2000. This is how computers work in general, be it javascript, vbscript, php, asp, sql, or any other computer language that I have used.