Wrong date shown in Indesign document.

[Abambo]

Hi all,

My Indesign is really quite advanced. It's showing a really advanced date:

Any ideas?

[Steve Werner]

My preview matches what shows in the file. However, there is definitely a date bug going on for today's date since this is December 31, 2017!

[Erica Gamet]

When I use the default format, it reads it just fine. When I manually enter "YYYY," it changes to 2018. It will be interesting to check again tomorrow and see if the bug is still there.

[Abambo]

well for today (Jan 1st) 2018 would be correct...  

[Abambo]

Today it's correct, as expected...

[jane-e]

Super weird that it went so off...

[Abambo]

Only explanation is a bug.

[jane-e]

I was thinking "Hal", but I'll go with "bug".

[Erica Gamet]

I was imagining some playful AI saying, "This is not the year you're looking for."

[Jongware]

Let me try to reproduce this. I'll report back at December 31st, 2018.

(Hope I don't forget, else it will take another year...)

[Erica Gamet]

Might I suggest you write a script to remind you?  

[Abambo]

A calendar entry should be sufficient...

[jane-e]

Well, yes...but I'm not sure Erica was thinking of merely sufficient.

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

Maybe InDesign didn't like 2017 any better than I did, and has high hopes that 2018 will be a better year?

[Erica Gamet]

Best answer yet!

[Abambo]

I love the idea of a program liking or disliking something...

Well, giving it a deeper thought, I would be not amused, having my programs expressing feelings...