Bug 14060: Consider an empty string as a valid date

Signed-off-by: Nick Clemens <nick@bywatersolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle M Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>

diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes/calendar.inc b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes/calendar.inc
index 14ec21d..7175df2 100644 (file)
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes/calendar.inc
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes/calendar.inc
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ if (debug > 1) {alert("dateformat: " + dformat + "\ndebug is on (level " + debug
 var MSG_PLEASE_ENTER_A_VALID_DATE = _("Please enter a valid date (should match %s).");
 
 function is_valid_date(date) {
+    // An empty string is considered as a valid date for convenient reasons.
+    if ( date === '' ) return 1;
+
     var dateformat = dateformat_str = '[% Koha.Preference('dateformat') %]';
     if ( dateformat == 'us' ) {
         if ( date.search(/\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}/) == -1 ) return 0;