topic Re: How to remove date via REST api on featureupdates? in ArcGIS REST APIs and Services Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/how-to-remove-date-via-rest-api-on-featureupdates/m-p/341239#M1664 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No default date. If there would be a default set, then I believe all date</P><P>fields would be defaulted to 1/1/1900.</P><P></P><P></P><P><STRONG>Jason Posthuma</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>Developer</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>303-210-4525</STRONG></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Jan 2016 18:14:53 GMT JasonPosthuma 2016-01-07T18:14:53Z How to remove date via REST api on featureupdates? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/how-to-remove-date-via-rest-api-on-featureupdates/m-p/341237#M1662 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm using arcgis rest api 10.3.1. My service has an editable, nullable esriFieldTypeDate field named CaptureDate.</P><P></P><P>How can I remove this date? Passing null sets it to SQL Server epoch of 1/1/1900, passing -1 sets it 12/31/1969, and passing undefined, "NULL", or an empty string is rejected as bad input.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Jan 2016 15:05:41 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/how-to-remove-date-via-rest-api-on-featureupdates/m-p/341237#M1662 JasonPosthuma 2016-01-07T15:05:41Z Re: How to remove date via REST api on featureupdates? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/how-to-remove-date-via-rest-api-on-featureupdates/m-p/341238#M1663 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Seems like there was a bug (<SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'helvetica neue', verdana, sans-serif; background-color: #f6f6f6;">NIM070071)</SPAN> way back in 2.3 - <A href="https://community.esri.com/thread/29863">Default date of 1970 for date field at 2.3</A> that did not honor null values. It doesn't seem to be related, though. Do you have a default value for [date] set on the service, by chance?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Jan 2016 16:42:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/how-to-remove-date-via-rest-api-on-featureupdates/m-p/341238#M1663 ChrisSmith7 2016-01-07T16:42:05Z Re: How to remove date via REST api on featureupdates? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/how-to-remove-date-via-rest-api-on-featureupdates/m-p/341239#M1664 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No default date. If there would be a default set, then I believe all date</P><P>fields would be defaulted to 1/1/1900.</P><P></P><P></P><P><STRONG>Jason Posthuma</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>Developer</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>303-210-4525</STRONG></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Jan 2016 18:14:53 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/how-to-remove-date-via-rest-api-on-featureupdates/m-p/341239#M1664 JasonPosthuma 2016-01-07T18:14:53Z