New / Edit Operation Step window: Time range fields are being reset

[HelenClifton]

Expected behavior

Using GUI to run through Use Case 6 happy path. Applied a subset_temporal operation.
In the “New Operation Step” window, selected a start time of 2007-01-01
Then cleared the end time field. Expected the start time which had just been entered not to change.

Actual behavior

The start time reset itself to 1980-01-01.

Notes:

• Similar behaviour is seen if the end time has been entered and then the start time is cleared. The end time will reset itself to the current date.
• Similar behaviour is seen in “Edit Operation Step” window as well as “New Operation Step” window
• Similar behaviour is seen for other operations which contain a time range: anomaly_internal and open_dataset

Steps to reproduce the problem

1. Ensure there is at least one resource of type Dataset in the workspace
2. From operations panel, select subset_temporal then Apply
3. In New Operation Step window, select a Dataset resource
4. Next to TimeRange, enter a start time (the end time field is then automatically populated with today’s date)

5. Clear the end time field and see that the start time has been reset to 1980-01-01

6. Enter new end time

7. Clear start time. Now end time has been reset.

Specifications

Cate 0.9.0-dev.5
Windows 7 Professional

[forman]

We should switch to simple text fields.

[HelenClifton]

Confirmed fixed in cate-0.9.0.dev.6