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Hi have to suggestions/complaints for CiviMember.

1) During the import process, CiviMember is very picky about the difference between 01 and 1.   For instance, dates reading 1/1/2008 will not be accepted or understood by CiviCRM.  On the other hand 01/01/2008 will be understood.  This is very inconvenient, especially when Microsoft Excel 2003 is a common format many of my clients store their data in, and 01/01/2008 is not a valid date formatting option.  (Go ahead, L33t h@x()rz, rant about Bill G, fine, but it's what a lot of people use, that's just a fact).

2) When entering a membership manually (through Find Contacts), the "Join Date" provides an earliest date of 1988 in the drop down menu.  I find it slightly silly that CiviCRM assumes that no organization that might use CiviCRM would have a member that has been around since before 1988.  Many charities have people (lifetime members, major donors, etc) that have been around since the 70s, 60s and before!

Please let me know if these two things can be added to the next cycle.  Thank you.

1) During the import process, CiviMember is very picky about the difference between 01 and 1.   For instance, dates reading 1/1/2008 will not be accepted or understood by CiviCRM.  On the other hand 01/01/2008 will be understood.  This is very inconvenient, especially when Microsoft Excel 2003 is a common format many of my clients store their data in, and 01/01/2008 is not a valid date formatting option.  (Go ahead, L33t h@x()rz, rant about Bill G, fine, but it's what a lot of people use, that's just a fact).

Please file an issue in the issue tracker for this and we'll look at handling the "trimmed" date format when we refactor the Import code (probably for release 2.2). thx!