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There is a history of a bug in which Smart Groups do not store the proper relative date ("Next 60 days") criteria, but rather convert the relative date into a hard date ("3 Jan 2018" to "4 Mar 2018"). This bug was noticed starting with v. 4.7.x and was. supposedly fixed in 4.7.13 I'm still having this issue in 4.7.27 (Joomla 3.8.2).

Anyone else notice this recurring? Any advice?

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I recall we've experienced this for quite a number of fields in Advanced Search. Some of them are - Event Dates, Registration Dates and some date filters in Case section.

I did a patch to fix this for us but missed to update core for some reason. If the above fields fail for you, can you try applying this patch and see if it works for you?

Opened a JIRA for this issue with a PR https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/11486.

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  • Thanks! The patch works! I wasn't ready to open a JIRA myself since it was supposedly fixed before, so thanks for your efforts on fixing it. One ... quirk ... though: while the saved search/smart group keeps the relative date, the text describing what the search is (when viewing the list of names) does not use relative language, i.e. <<Start Date - greater than or equal to "January 4th, 2018 12:00 AM" ...AND... End Date - less than or equal to "March 4th, 2018 11:59 PM">> rather than <<Event Date - Next 60 days>>. Not a big deal, but potentially confusing for users.
    – Phil Morice Brubaker
    Jan 4, 2018 at 16:16
  • ok, in my view, it actually provides more information, so that a user is known about the dates considered in the relative filter This Month, This quarter, etc. I personally like this date display rather than seeing the string filter I selected :-)
    – jitendra - fuzion
    Jan 5, 2018 at 3:35
  • I can see it both ways. I guess in my context where I don't have confidence that the search is saving the dates correctly, having hard dates displayed with the results doesn't increase my confidence that it is working properly.
    – Phil Morice Brubaker
    Jan 5, 2018 at 15:26

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