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For some reason many of my templates that I’ve applied have come out as being applied on 1970-01-01. Why is this happening?

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Strange. It may be a problem regarding your settings under time and date format. You can also manually add the date to a template. Just add |date=2014-03-09}}at the end of a template. Obviously, making sure to add the current date. -Tom

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I did add the current date. And it still reset to 1970.

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@Neon-Heart this default happens when you use a different format on the date. So, doing no date {{copyedit}} will work fine (it adds the date automatically - you don’t have to), or adding/adjusting a date in the right format will work fine, like {{copyedit|date=2014-03-09}} – but if you do it differently, like {{copyedit|date=2014.03.09}}, it defaults to 1970. Quirky, but easily avoidable. Do you think that’s what’s happening here, or is there a different bug going on?

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I did the formats as mm/dd/yy . Would that cause the bug to occur? That’s how I’ve always done it and it only started happening within the past month and a half.

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I see, okay! Yep, since the upgrade dates are handed a little differently in templates, so you’ll want to use the date=YYYY-MM-DD format to avoid a different default. That being said, most of the time, you just don’t have to put dates in at all - they’re added automatically, so unless you have reason to adjust to a different date from the actual day, just putting the template without a date parameter works fine:slight_smile: