Odd Japanese Characters in Date field

[ChristineRoquet1]

I have noticed that Japanese characters display in the attribute table for a date field ([EventDate]) if the date is 1/1/1600 or earlier.  This is a point feature class for event locations in the USA.

See attached screen shot.

Is this a known bug or is there a date limitation?

[DanPatterson_Retired]

from an ancient link

ArcGIS Desktop Help 9.3 - Working with date fields

• dates range between January 1, 0100, to December 31, 9999. Keep in mind that date calculations using and producing date values earlier than the year in which the Gregorian calendar was adopted, may not be appropriate.

which puts it in your time period

Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

why japanese characters is beyond me

[JoshuaBixby]

It appears to be a bug, you should submit an Esri Support incident (Incident opened, bug logged).

I can reproduce the behavior using a table in a file geodatabase.  If you use a cursor, the correct values are shown, it is just a display issue in ArcGIS Pro.

[ChristineRoquet1]

Thanks Joshua for exploring this.  It is a curious one.

[KoryKramer]

[BUG-000094943 : Date values containing a year of 1600 or earlier do not display correctly in ArcGIS Pro.] was just submitted for this issue. 

[JoshuaBixby]

Kory Kramer​, thanks for following through and updating the GeoNet discussion. 

[ChristineRoquet1]

Thanks Kory!

[BradSkopyk]

Was this ever resolved? I have encountered a similar problem using "Map Time" overlays (i.e. a dynamic text for dates) within a time animation in ArcGIS Pro 2.2.2., but only with dates on or before 1/1/1600. In those instances, the dynamic date text simply does appear in the overlay.

- Brad