Salemaker won't assign start, end dates

[Saintsteven]

Hello, I've got a problem with Salemaker, in that it won't accept the start and end dates of a sale (I'm using mm/dd/yyyy).

If I am trying to set up a new sale and fill in the start/end fields, the dates default to immediately/never regardless of what I've entered.

I have a couple of old expired sales, which display proper start and end dates as I set them up, but if I try to edit those dates they too revert to immediately start and never end.

I've got version 1.3.9h. Only modifications I've made lately were related to Facebook like buttons on product pages.

Grateful for suggestions where to start troubleshooting,

thanks,
s

[Saintsteven]

My problem is not just a SaleMaker problem it turns out. If I try to edit a special, those no longer accept start and end dates. I don't use SaleMaker much but I do run specials and haven't encountered this before.

[Saintsteven]

Let me rephrase the question a little: I have made some modification to my store recently which seems to have broken SaleMaker and Specials. I can make sales and specials but cannot set dates for them (they revert to running instantly and ending never).

Files I have modified recently, which I suspect must contain an error:

includes/templates/common/html_header.php
includes/modules/meta_tags.php
includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_main_page.php
includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_product_display.php


Can someone help me zero in a little better?

[Saintsteven]

I'll add:

I can edit the starting and ending dates of a sale through my database, but not from the admin panel.

[Ajeh]

What are the settings in your english.php for these:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_US.ISO_8859-1');
define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%m/%d/%Y');  // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT', 'm/d/Y'); // this is used for date()
define('PHP_DATE_TIME_FORMAT', 'm/d/Y H:i:s'); // this is used for date()
define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');
define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'MM/dd/yyyy');  //Use only 'dd', 'MM' and 'yyyy' here in any order

[Saintsteven]

those settings:

@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_US.ISO_8859-1');
  define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%m/%d/%Y');  // this is used for strftime()
  define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()
  define('DATE_FORMAT', 'm/d/Y'); // this is used for date()
  define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');

[Saintsteven]

Thank you for assisting me; I have to be out of town for about four hours now but will return to the topic. I notice it looks like I may be missing a couple of lines from that code........(somehow)

[Ajeh]

Look in the english.php file for the Admin in the:
/your_secret_admin/includes/languages/english.php

[Saintsteven]

that code:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_US.ISO_8859-1');
define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%m/%d/%Y');  // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT', 'm/d/Y'); // this is used for date()
define('PHP_DATE_TIME_FORMAT', 'm/d/Y H:i:s'); // this is used for date()
define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');
define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'MM/dd/yyyy');  //Use only 'dd', 'MM' and 'yyyy' here in any order

[Ajeh]

Can you give an example of the dates you are trying to set?

For Example if the Sale runs from October 30, 2011 thru October 31, 2011 ...

The Start Date would be: 10/30/2011 (Midnight)

End Date would be: 11/1/2011 (Midnight)

as the times starts and stops at Midnight ...

NOTE: these dates are based on Server Time ...