Handling 2 digit year input

[utdrew]

Hi,

I'm using Richfaces 3.1.4 and I've got my calendar's setup with manual input enabled and my date pattern setup as follows:

datePattern="MM/dd/yyyy"

I've got a problem with people entering dates like 01/01/50 which then becomes 01/01/0050 when it really should be 01/01/1950. Is there a way to either force an error if they only have a 2 digit year or set the calendar up to convert the date to a 1900 relative year?

Thanks,

Drew

[ilya_shaikovsky]

This works just as designed. Just change pattern to "MM/dd/yy" :)

[utdrew]

Thanks Ilya!

If I change the date pattern as you've suggested will it also permit 4 year date entry? I would like to support both of these styles

01/01/48 which is January 1, 1948
01/01/1948 which is also January 1, 1948

Thanks,

Drew

[ilya_shaikovsky]

Yes it will be submitted as it should.. but the calendar will display it again in data pattern and reRendered

[ronanker]

it would be very usefull to be able to have pattern "dd/MM/yyyy" for showing date when using pattern "d/M/y" for parsing...

if user type "1/3/8" then the component would change it into "01/03/2008" and refresh the input...
(how can we define the dates range... 1950->2049 or 1970->2069 or maybe +2000 for ??0->999 ? -> need to code our own DateConverter)

can we use our own DateConverter, by putting it in converter attribute ?
(maybe i'll try one day...)

[ilya_shaikovsky]

you secify the converter in converter attribute or use f:converter as for any simple input component.