From 924b8a3b3eac3afdf3059dc2a7df7002049bd8a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Haley <>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:16:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Remove change to default date, reverting it to year 101

---
 src/calibre/utils/date.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/date.py b/src/calibre/utils/date.py
index b25940d23d..c5fba13f57 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/date.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/date.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ parse_date_day_first = compute_locale_info_for_parse_date()
 utc_tz = _utc_tz = tzutc()
 local_tz = _local_tz = SafeLocalTimeZone()
 
-UNDEFINED_DATE = datetime(1000,1,1, tzinfo=utc_tz)
+UNDEFINED_DATE = datetime(101,1,1, tzinfo=utc_tz)
 
 def parse_date(date_string, assume_utc=False, as_utc=True, default=None):
     '''

From acdc3d864a4402dc6df778d1cbc7d8de2da43233 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Haley <>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:05:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add 'set to today' buttons to metadata editors

---
 src/calibre/gui2/custom_column_widgets.py | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/custom_column_widgets.py b/src/calibre/gui2/custom_column_widgets.py
index 58c2f15452..fed1de93a1 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/custom_column_widgets.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/custom_column_widgets.py
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ from functools import partial
 
 from PyQt4.Qt import QComboBox, QLabel, QSpinBox, QDoubleSpinBox, QDateEdit, \
         QDate, QGroupBox, QVBoxLayout, QPlainTextEdit, QSizePolicy, \
-        QSpacerItem, QIcon, QCheckBox, QWidget, QHBoxLayout, SIGNAL
+        QSpacerItem, QIcon, QCheckBox, QWidget, QHBoxLayout, SIGNAL, \
+        QPushButton
 
-from calibre.utils.date import qt_to_dt
+from calibre.utils.date import qt_to_dt, now
 from calibre.gui2.widgets import TagsLineEdit, EnComboBox
 from calibre.gui2 import UNDEFINED_QDATE
 from calibre.utils.config import tweaks
@@ -138,19 +139,24 @@ class DateEdit(QDateEdit):
         self.setSpecialValueText(_('Undefined'))
         QDateEdit.focusOutEvent(self, x)
 
+    def set_to_today(self):
+        self.setDate(now())
+
 class DateTime(Base):
 
     def setup_ui(self, parent):
-        self.widgets = [QLabel('&'+self.col_metadata['name']+':', parent),
-                DateEdit(parent)]
+        cm = self.col_metadata
+        self.widgets = [QLabel('&'+cm['name']+':', parent), DateEdit(parent),
+            QLabel(''), QPushButton(_('Set \'%s\' to today')%cm['name'], parent)]
         w = self.widgets[1]
-        format = self.col_metadata['display'].get('date_format','')
+        format = cm['display'].get('date_format','')
         if not format:
             format = 'dd MMM yyyy'
         w.setDisplayFormat(format)
         w.setCalendarPopup(True)
         w.setMinimumDate(UNDEFINED_QDATE)
         w.setSpecialValueText(_('Undefined'))
+        self.widgets[3].clicked.connect(w.set_to_today)
 
     def setter(self, val):
         if val is None: