Explain Date Time Calendar Behaviors

[Scott A_ Chase]

Why is the behavior of the calendar for the Date Time Picker field such that it seems to randomly pick dates/times far into the future by default rather than say, picking the current date or, if there is a date in the field already, picking the date in the field?  If one isn't paying attention and wants the outage ends date, for my scenario, to be two days after the start date, I could pick that date not realizing that the month was off into the future.

Scenario(s)

Outage Starts field defaults to current date and time.

Outage Ends field has no default.

Create Issue FFSP eTicket (ET) Radio Outage Scheduled

See the following for "Outage Starts" and "Outage Ends" fields:

 

Select "Calendar"  icon next to "Outage Starts" field to view Data/Time Picker calendar:

Result is a date and time nine weeks in the future on the same weekday.

Select "Calendar"  icon next to "Outage Ends" field to view Data/Time Picker calendar:

Result is the same data and time displayed in the "Outage Starts" field.

Change DTG in "Outage Starts" to something other than that which it displayed on ticket creation. Select "Calendar"  icon next to "Outage Ends" field to view Data/Time Picker calendar:

 

Result is the same data and time displayed in the "Outage Starts" field when the ticket was created.

Set DTG in "Outage Ends" field.

 

 Select "Calendar"  icon next to "Outage Ends" field to view Data/Time Picker calendar:

Result is a date and time nine weeks in the future on the same weekday.

 Set DTG in "Outage Ends" field.

 

Select "Calendar"  icon next to "Outage Ends" field to view Data/Time Picker calendar:

Result is a date and time 45 days in the future.

Set DTG in "Outage Ends" field.

Select "Calendar"  icon next to "Outage Ends" field to view Data/Time Picker calendar:

Result is a date and time 95 days in the future.

[Jaanika]

I had a similar issue that always showed +3 years and +3 months on the calendar view. In my case, I configured my jira date to show EU date format instead of the US one. This means that I changed the following key values:

• jira.date.time.picker.java.format
• jira.date.time.picker.javascript.format

The problem is that the calendar still offered the future dates in the calendar pop-up view. To fix this I also edited the date.picker to have the same format as above:

• jira.date.picker.java.format
• jira.date.picker.javascript.format

My end results looked like this:

• jira.date.picker.java.format
  dd.MM.yy HH:mm
• jira.date.picker.javascript.format
  %d.%m.%y %H:%M %p
• jira.date.time.picker.java.format
  dd.MM.yy HH:mm
• jira.date.time.picker.javascript.format
  %d.%m.%y %H:%M %p