From cc082d051013838718de5c54dab978df85735a32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Pierre-Andr=C3=A9=20Vullioud?= <pa@inetis.ch>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 18:06:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Return empty from Backend::dateTime instead of current date
 (#3246)

This changes Backend::dateTime to return an empty string instead of the current date when dealing with a null date. It should only affect the date field preview instance. Credit to @pvullioud
---
 modules/backend/helpers/Backend.php | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/modules/backend/helpers/Backend.php b/modules/backend/helpers/Backend.php
index cbc084999..095207d46 100644
--- a/modules/backend/helpers/Backend.php
+++ b/modules/backend/helpers/Backend.php
@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ class Backend
             'timeSince' => false,
             'ignoreTimezone' => false,
         ], $options));
+        
+        if(!$dateTime) {
+            return '';
+        }
 
         $carbon = DateTimeHelper::makeCarbon($dateTime);