In List view that’s not the case but in the Info > Custom inspector it is.
Ah, I see: many thanks for the clarification.
Stephen
It’s just the time zone shift. The internal default value is 1.1.2001 00:00:00 GMT.
Yes - (now it’s explained) I confirm that’s what I see here in the UK.
Stephen
Just wanted to +1 this. In my opinion, a custom date that has never been edited should be empty at first. Consider: Paymen date, Date of payment received, …
Throwing in my 2 cents for either a definable default date or an empty value in Custom Metadata date field.
I I were to be really picky the default date would be conditional i.e. Today, Yesterday, First/Last of this/last month/year., but I would settle for being able to make it always be one date that I could choose.
I personally don’t need the empty condition (yet!) but I understand the use case where that might be desirable.