Pods displays wrong date

Hi @theraecreative

How are you adding the date field exactly? If used within an Elementor block/module then you will need to contact Elementor about this issue.

If not, what is your configuration for the date field?

Cheers, Jory

January 1, 1970 is the Unix epoch. It is a date which appears when computers are asked to display a date starting from the number 0 or a blank field.

What that means in practical terms it that in connecting your field to Elementor, it is likely that the field is either blank, or the name of the field has been mistyped or miscapitalized, causing a blank value to be returned, which is then converted into 1/1/1970.

For an example of displaying a date/time field in arbitrary ways without depending on Elementor to handle data well, please see https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/time-format-displaying-with-seconds/#post-17461213

I believe 0000-00-00 would do this too if the value is empty for some reason in the DB.

Thank you for your replies. The fields are not blank. I am displaying the date dynamically using the Elements “icon list” widget and “Pods Date Filed”. I believe I have this working on other sites. I will reach out to Elementor for more info. Thank you for your help.

Okay, best of luck.
If a computer says it thinks a date is January 1, 1970, it always means it was given a value it thinks is zero. So if the field is not blank, Elementor may be querying the incorrect posts within the loop, or there may be a typo, or the date may have been interpreted as text instead of a timestamp.
Using the linked shortcode via the Code Snippets plugin or any other installation method should work around all of these potential issues.