In my role I am frequently creating small examples and it used to annoy me that sometimes a date example would have a DATEEDIT widget with a value that defaulted to 31/12/1899 and sometimes it wouldn't. I had got into the habit of setting the date to TODAY so that when I opened the calendar widget I did not have to scroll through many years to enter a relevant date. A recent forum post (thank you Benjamin G) sent me off down a rabbit hole that helped to explain why the date variable had the value 31/12/1899 and why sometimes it was NULL.
Read more at
https://4js.com/ask-reuben/ig-248/
