[SOLVED] What's with the component TDBDateEdit?

[1HuntnMan]

I put DBDateEdit on a contacts form for the contact's DoB.  I like the button the user can bring up a calendar.
BUT, in run-time I can't figure out looking at the component's Object Inspector how to keep it from defaulting/showing on blank DoB's the values 12/30/1899 or in mine I set the Date Format to dd mmm yyyy, i.e. 30 Dec 1899. If I key in the correct DoB and save, it's correct. But every record that hasn't been edited for the DoB has this default in 1899, the first year value in the range.

Guess I'm missing something, I could write code to override that but think I'm not setting something correct in the Object Inspector.

[1HuntnMan]

I used this before for a date stamp in which I defaulted it to the current date. So, this issue didn't occur because I'm defaulting the current date on a new record.

[1HuntnMan]

Nevermind, changed to TDBDateTimePicker. This works!

Thanks

[LacaK]

IMO TDBDateEdit should not display 12/30/1899 for NULL values (it is confusing and it doesn't look good).
I reported it as bug in https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/issues/41584