Date Format Incorrect When Printing from SharePoint

Question

Exactly like it sounds. I have a document that auto-populates a date 33 days in the future when printed. (Thanks to this thread.) It populates correctly when opened in Acrobat Pro, but when printing directly from SharePoint, it prints today's date like so:

Any ideas how to fix this?

This is the Will Print script:

var d = new Date();

d.setDate(d.getDate()+33);
this.getField("FutureDate").value = util.printd ("dddd, mmmm d, yyyy", d);

PDF Automation Station · Accepted Answer

I haven't tried it in Chrome because the company strongly prefers Edge, but I know some of my colleagues do use Chrome.

Remove the date formatting in the FutureDate field and it will work with Edge, Chrome, and Brave (I tested all 3). Because the field is readonly, the formatting is not necessary. There was a conflict with the custom date format you had in those web browsers.

try67 · Answer

As mentioned, non-Adobe viewers usually have very limited support for scripts. It's very odd it partially works, though. I would expect it to work entirely, or not at all... You can try a workaround, like this:

var days = ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"];
var dayOfWeek = days[d.getDay()];
this.getField("FutureDate").value = dayOfWeek + ", " + util.printd("mmmm d, yyyy", d);

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