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Jesse
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Date year reverts back to last century
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I’m having an issue where users will enter 07/16/30 into the field and the value gets saved as 07/16/1930 instead of 07/16/2030. If 07/16/29 is entered it gets saved as 07/16/2029.

I currently have my Mask Input set to "mm/dd/yyyy" and my Format String set to "MM/dd/yy"

Is there some default value that gets set for what year to choose when only the last 2 characters of the year have been entered?

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    Hi,

    This is not really related to the DateTimeEditor, this is the behavior of Microsoft Windows. If you only use 2 digits for the year, Microsoft arbitrarily designates the number 30 as the cutoff point for the century.

    You can demonstrate this without using any Infragistics controls very simply like so:


                string s = "07/16/30";
                DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse(s);

                Debug.WriteLine(dt);

    I recommend that you use a 4-digit mask for the year so that there is no ambiguity.

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