Question

I have a table that looks like:

+--------------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field              | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+--------------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| ProductsDownloadId | int(11)     | NO   | PRI | 0       |       |
| RCContactID        | int(11)     | NO   | MUL | NULL    |       |
| product_name       | varchar(50) | YES  | MUL | NULL    |       |
| download_date      | timestamp   | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
+--------------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

I’m writing a module for this table to be viewable in a Drupal 6 View.

I followed the example I found here:
http://drupalcontrib.org/api/drupal/contributions–views–docs–docs.php/function/hook_views_data/6

So I exposed the download_date as thus:

    $data['products_downloaded']['download_date']=array(
       'title'=>t("Download Date"),
       'help'=>t("When Product was downloaded by the user"),
   'field' => array(
         'handler' => 'views_handler_field_date', 
     'click sortable' => TRUE,
        ), 
        'sort' => array(
               'handler' => 'views_handler_sort',
      ), 
    'filter' => array(
        'handler' => 'views_handler_filter_date',
   ), 

);

But when I add it to a view, all the dates are displayed as “12/31/1969 – 19:33”. And none of the dates in my table are:

EDIT: Corrected query:

 mysql> select count(1) from products_downloaded where download_date <'2000-12-31     23:59:59.999999';
 +----------+
 | count(1) |
 +----------+
 |        0 |
 +----------+
 1 row in set (0.04 sec)

I also did a custom date format with the format ‘r’ in the View and I got
Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:31 -0500 for all the dates.

So what did I do wrong on my module?

Answer 1

What I was able to determine was that PHP or Drupal wasn’t able to understand whatever was being returned to the processor. I messed around with a custom hook and got the value to be accepted by the DateTime constructor. From there . . . it was easy to get the date formats back.