I saw an article that needed to be copyedited, and when I put the year, it said 1970-01-01, when I know I put 2021-17-11.
This is probably just a Unix error – sometimes if the date on the tag bugs out or is somehow invalidated, it’ll “reset” to 1970, because the default Unix “reset date” is January 1, 1970. (This can happen on computers and phones, too.) It doesn’t really hurt anything in this case, since I think the dates are just used to order articles from oldest to newest in the greenhouse systems, but you can always manually reset the date if you want
As an aside, you don’t have
to manually input the date on article tags – if you just write {{copyedit}} and then publish the changes, it’ll automatically add the date on its own. The same goes for {{inuse}}, {{cleanup}}, {{format}}, {{nfd}}, and so forth. This bug can still happen regardless of whether the date is added manually or automatically, but I’m just mentioning this so you don’t feel obligated to type in the date parameters every single time you tag something!
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