lotus domino - Xpages Date Time Picker field defaults to today's date

Question

Running a ND9 server and when browsing a Xpage with a date field, the default value for this field is always today's date.

On a 8.5.3 server the control is rendered like this:

<input class="dijitReset dijitInputInner" dojoattachpoint="textbox,focusNode" autocomplete="off" type="text" aria-valuenow="undefined" aria-invalid="false" id="view:_id1:_id2:main:fromTDate" tabindex="0" value="">
<input style="display: none;" type="text" name="view:_id1:_id2:main:fromTDate">

On a ND9 server the same control renders like this:

<input class="dijitReset dijitInputInner" type="text" autocomplete="off" data-dojo-attach-point="textbox,focusNode" role="textbox" aria-haspopup="true" aria-invalid="false" tabindex="0" id="view:_id1:_id2:main:fromTDate" maxlength="10" size="10" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="view:_id1:_id2:main:fromTDate" value="2013-03-26">

I've been able to circumvent it by adding a Dojo Date Text Box instead but this feature must be wrong, right?

Answer 1

This was actually a fix put into v9.0. Today's date appearing by default is now the expected behaviour