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If a custom profile field of type 'date' is defined,
a) it is not possible to reverse from 'default to today' once selected and saved
b) whatever the default is, the selectable date range goes from TODAY to exactly 100 years ago - so one has no way to select a date in the future.
For b), I found a solution by hacking includes/functions_profile_fields.php , in line 669 the code has to be patched to allow a broader selection of the year.

b) is already fixed, as to a) : I don't get what the bug is. Could you explain a little more verbosely?

You can't select a year in the future as the routine just calculates 100 years back. 8-)

I fixed it myself by changing line 670 from

for ($i = $now['year'] - 100; $i <= $now['year']; $i++)

to

for ($i = $now['year'] - 100; $i <= $now['year']+5; $i++)

to allow selecting a date range that goes up to 5 years into the future.

b) is already fixed in the CVS

a) is the thing where I don't see a bug.

Try to define a custom profile field of type 'date' and set it to 'always use current date'.

Now, don't ever get the idea of setting a user-defined date value or leaving it empty, because the ACP will NEVER let you switch back from 'always use current date'... 8-o

Sorry, I don't see where the problem is.
Please post step by step what you do, what is supposed to happen and what actually happens.

I don't know how else to describe it. Should I ever decide to use the same field without a predefined setting to default date, I would have to delete it and all users would lose their settings so far.

The ACP doesn't allow reversing a custom profile field of type 'date' with switch 'Always the current date' set to 'Yes' back to 'No'. I just reproduced it. The ACP 'automatically' switches it back to 'yes' after a 1-2 seconds.