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Hi I am trying to format my date field which is called {member_birthday} with the format attribute. But whenever I apply the attribute to the tag it shows the date in the correct format but the with an incorrect date.

<input type="text" name="display_birthday" id="display_birthday" value="{member_birthday}" maxlength="23" size="25"/>

Displays the correct date i.e 1982-11-08 12:00 AM

<input type="text" name="display_birthday" id="display_birthday" value="{member_birthday format="%d/%m/%Y"}" maxlength="23" size="25"/>

Displays an incorrect date i.e 01/01/1970

Hi aa146214,

Is member_birthday a Date type channel field? In other words, it’s not just a regular Text Input field right?

I ask because a Date field stores its data as a unix timestamp (like 1349901266), and that’s what it’ll output if you just use {member_birthday} in the template. Since your template is outputting a formatted date without any format parameter, it has me concerned that something is off. Could you let me know how this date field is set up?