[GIS] How to enter a date into the attribute table

Question

This may be something simple stupid but in QGIS 2.4 I have created a date column. How do I enter the date in correctly. Every time I type a date in, in whatever format it does not move that entered date into my attribute table. So I click on the table and open the form and try again but it never saves my entered data for the date.

Answer 1

Not stupid at all buddy! Everyone has to learn sometime :)

You may have already tried the way I am going to describe as I use QGIS 2.2 instead of 2.4.

Open the attribute table, select New column and add the name and change the type:

The format I normally use is YYYY-MM-DD when typing in the Date column:

Hope this helps.