# Date error **URL:** \ **Category:** Erros\ **Tags:** metadados\ **Created:** [Novembro 18, 2022, 2:04pm UTC](https://tainacan.discourse.group/t/date-error/1165 "2022-11-18T14:04:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dshshproject](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@dshshproject](https://tainacan.discourse.group/u/dshshproject)\ **Post date:** [Novembro 18, 2022, 2:04pm UTC](https://tainacan.discourse.group/t/date-error/1165/1 "2022-11-18T14:04:20Z")
Hello, I am am trying to upload items in a project i am starting with Tainacan. I have set the date as the format requests it for upload with CSV, however i get this error message for every item in the CSV: \*[2022-11-17 21:49:29] Error saving value for Data in item \* _[2022-11-17 21:49:29] Array_ _(_ - [0] =\> Array\* - ``` (* ``` - ``` [metadata_type_error] => Array* ``` - ``` (* ``` - ``` [0] => Invalid date format. Expected format is MM/DD/YYYY, got 05/07/1729.* ``` - ``` )* ``` - ``` )* ``` _)_ I would appreciate any help, Rudi ---
**Author:** ![mateus.m.luna](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/tainacan.discourse.group/mateus.m.luna/32/3_2.png) [@mateus.m.luna](https://tainacan.discourse.group/u/mateus.m.luna)\ **Post date:** [Novembro 18, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://tainacan.discourse.group/t/date-error/1165/2 "2022-11-18T14:36:47Z")
Hey @dshshproject! Welcome to our forum! We’re sorry that you are facing this issue. Could you please send us your CSV file (or maybe a few lines of it, so we could make a test? ---
**Author:** ![dshshproject](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@dshshproject](https://tainacan.discourse.group/u/dshshproject)\ **Post date:** [Novembro 18, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://tainacan.discourse.group/t/date-error/1165/3 "2022-11-18T14:40:46Z")
Hi Mateus, Of course. Attached is the file. This is my test website: [Dokumente në gjuhën osmane – Dokumente mbi Shqipërinë dhe Shqiptarët](https://dshsh.albanon.org/test/?view_mode=table&perpage=12&paged=1&order=ASC&orderby=meta_value&metakey=1886&fetch_only=&fetch_only_meta=1965%2C18283%2C1886%2C1888%2C1890%2C1892%2C1894) [elbasani\_sheet6\_test.csv](https://tainacan.discourse.group/uploads/short-url/f2nkTjlqTM4vrM8dlNe8YvbXujh.csv) (11.2 KB) Thanks Rudi ---
**Author:** ![mateus.m.luna](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/tainacan.discourse.group/mateus.m.luna/32/3_2.png) [@mateus.m.luna](https://tainacan.discourse.group/u/mateus.m.luna)\ **Post date:** [Novembro 20, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://tainacan.discourse.group/t/date-error/1165/4 "2022-11-20T17:53:15Z")
Uhmm, it seems that our error message up there was not correct. Actually, in a CSV file like this you should set your data in a ISO standard. Could you try the import again by defining your date as YYYY-MM-DD? ---
**Author:** ![vnmedeiros](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/tainacan.discourse.group/vnmedeiros/32/7_2.png) [@vnmedeiros](https://tainacan.discourse.group/u/vnmedeiros)\ **Post date:** [Novembro 20, 2022, 7:21pm UTC](https://tainacan.discourse.group/t/date-error/1165/5 "2022-11-20T19:21:06Z")
hi @dshshproject , The message log is wrong. the correct one would be: `Invalid date format. The expected format is Y-m-d, taken on 7/25/1729`. if you use this format you should be successful in importing: ![dd](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/tainacan/original/2X/1/1c93c64fae30ce80f2d6f2479078b07423ff30d1.png) I sended fix for the log message, in the next version this should be right. Thanks for message ---
**Author:** ![dshshproject](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@dshshproject](https://tainacan.discourse.group/u/dshshproject)\ **Post date:** [Novembro 21, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://tainacan.discourse.group/t/date-error/1165/6 "2022-11-21T21:24:20Z")
Hi Mateus, The format was the issue. It works fine with yyyy-mm-dd Thanks ---
**Author:** ![dshshproject](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@dshshproject](https://tainacan.discourse.group/u/dshshproject)\ **Post date:** [Novembro 21, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://tainacan.discourse.group/t/date-error/1165/7 "2022-11-21T21:26:29Z")
@vnmedeiros Thanks you! ---
**Author:** ![dshshproject](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@dshshproject](https://tainacan.discourse.group/u/dshshproject)\ **Post date:** [Dezembro 3, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://tainacan.discourse.group/t/date-error/1165/8 "2022-12-03T13:50:12Z")
@vnmedeiros Hi, is there any way i can enter only the year, or month and year? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![vnmedeiros](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/tainacan.discourse.group/vnmedeiros/32/7_2.png) [@vnmedeiros](https://tainacan.discourse.group/u/vnmedeiros)\ **Post date:** [Dezembro 3, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://tainacan.discourse.group/t/date-error/1165/9 "2022-12-03T14:20:20Z")
> [@dshshproject](#): > > Hi, is there any way i can enter only the year, or month and year? > > Thanks Hi, unfortunately we don’t have a way to do it yet ☹ ☹ . workaround would be to use numeric fields to represents the month or year ---
**Author:** ![dshshproject](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@dshshproject](https://tainacan.discourse.group/u/dshshproject)\ **Post date:** [Dezembro 3, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://tainacan.discourse.group/t/date-error/1165/10 "2022-12-03T14:24:25Z")
@vnmedeiros that means to create a field for each - day, month, year?