[freeside] What is the correct format for importing dates

[ivan]

MM/YY or MM/YYYY or M/YY or M/YYYY

or with a - instead of a /

the actual regex is around line 649 of cust_main.pm: 

    $self->paydate =~ /^(\d{1,2})[\/\-](\d{2}(\d{2})?)$/

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:48:22AM -0400, Bob Roswell wrote:
> I have been trying to import customers using my version of TEMPLATE_cust_main.import.
> 
> I am getting Illegal expiration date.  I have tried every date format I can think of including the seconds since the epoch 999095377 currently .
> 
> What is the correct format?
> 
> Exact error meesage is 
> tax: Y|
> daytime: 4104556802|
> country: US|
> First: |
> first: margie|
> LegaceyBillingData: 4|
> paydate: 02/02/02|
> payby: COMP|
> state: MD|
> address1: 1234 Guilford Terrace|
> address2: nosecondline|
> night: 410-467-3727|
> payinfo: EDCENTER|
> city: Baltimore|
> fax: 410-555-1222|
> Zip: |
> username: mroswell|
> last: roswell|
> zip: 21204|
> custnum: 1234|
> company: infographics|
> Illegal expiration date: 02/02/02 at ./TEMPLATE_cust_main.import line 135, <CLIENT> line 4.
> 
> 
> Perl   This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i686-linux
> Linux is RedHat Linux 7.1 running 2.4.2 kernel
> Database Postgres 7.0.3
> DBI is 10.8  200/06/11
> DBD is $DBD::Pg::VERSION = '0.95';
> 
> Bob Roswell
> System Source
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> 

-- 
_ivan