I enter a date into a field but then when I save it resets the date to something else

Apparently our date parser doesn't understand that format. It should of course as it's a common date format. We apologize for this. The work around is to enter it "28 August 2009".

In the mean time we will see if we can patch the library we use. If you're interested we use Chronic and the following are examples of what it supports:

Simple

thursday
november
summer
friday 13:00
mon 2:35
4pm
6 in the morning
friday 1pm
sat 7 in the evening
yesterday
today
tomorrow
this tuesday
next month
last winter
this morning
last night
this second
yesterday at 4:00
last friday at 20:00
last week tuesday
tomorrow at 6:45pm
afternoon yesterday
thursday last week
Complex

3 years ago
5 months before now
7 hours ago
7 days from now
1 week hence
in 3 hours
1 year ago tomorrow
3 months ago saturday at 5:00 pm
7 hours before tomorrow at noon
3rd wednesday in november
3rd month next year
3rd thursday this september
4th day last week

Specific Dates

January 5
dec 25
may 27th
October 2006
oct 06
jan 3 2010
february 14, 2004
3 jan 2000
17 april 85
5/27/1979
27/5/1979
05/06
1979-05-27
Friday
5
4:00
17:00
0800