Incorrect display of dates in the tasks.

Question

Hello!

We noticed that users incorrectly entered a date in a field of type Date Picker.
The year "2017" is displayed as "0017".

Subsequently, the date was corrected to the correct one.
We have set up reports that reflect these changes. Due to incorrect data in the form of "0017" reports are broken.
Why can there be such a problem with the display of the year?
Any ideas how to solve the problem? Is it possible to make a limit on the entered date?

Payne · Answer

As as admin, click the cog in the upper right and choose System, then click the Advanced Settings button. There are 4 attributes to be changed.

Helen Porter · Answer

How did you change the date format?

Payne · Answer

Jira unfortunately interprets a 2-digit year (when expecting 4 digits) literally, meaning if a user enter "19", Jira assumes they mean "0019".

We encountered these occasionally and resolved them with user education, telling folks to either use the calendar popup, or if they typed the date, to use 4 digits. We had a filter set up to watch certain fields (e.g. due < 2000-01-01) that the admins subscribed to, and when one appeared we'd contact the user to correct and educate.

What we've since done, though, is change our date format to use 2-digit years (i.e. went from mm/dd/yyyy to mm/dd/yy) so that now when a user keys a 2-digit year, it is intelligently assigned a century.

-Payne