209: Better date fields - Composr CMS feature tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

209	Composr	catalogues	public	2010-10-03 20:14	2011-09-15 23:45

Reporter	Chris Graham	Assigned To	Chris Graham
Priority	normal	Severity	feature
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed

Summary	209: Better date fields
Description	The date field is held in a normal DB integer. It needs to be a bigint to hold wider timestamps. Those seconds across years add up quick.
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Chris Graham 2011-09-15 23:45 administrator ~182	Was nothing to do with DB size, as stored in a string. Was an interface issue, the list could not show 1000's of years to pick from. Fixed using some JS, and also improved how the YUI calendar control integrates, and fixed a webkit bug in it.