move use statements to handler.pl, do not show 1/1/70 for new birthdates, and improve error handling

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/httemplate/elements/tr-input-date-field.html b/httemplate/elements/tr-input-date-field.html
index 1624df05c..2320a9552 100644
--- a/httemplate/elements/tr-input-date-field.html
+++ b/httemplate/elements/tr-input-date-field.html
@@ -29,10 +29,9 @@ $format = "%m/%d/%Y" unless $format;
 $label = $name unless $label;
 
 if ($usedatetime) {
-  eval "use DateTime;";
-  die $@ if $@;
   my $dt = DateTime->from_epoch(epoch => $value, time_zone => 'floating');
-  $value = $dt->strftime($format);
+  $value = $dt->strftime($format)
+    unless $value eq '';
 }else{
   $value = time2str($format, $value);
 }