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I wrote a patch to realize this feature.

Implementation for setting the default value to current date may not be the best way.
Feedback is welcome.

Thank you for sharing the patch. The patch looks fine.

What do you all think about this patch? Feedbacks welcome.

Mizuki ISHIKAWA wrote:

I wrote a patch to realize this feature.

Implementation for setting the default value to current date may not be the best way.
Feedback is welcome.

Thanks for your patch. It's a usefull feature but this patch has the side effect that it makes the string "current_date" a valid value for date custom fields. I think we need a different approach.

I wrote a new patch that adds a "Today" option using a different implementation approach.

As noted in #note-5, storing a literal string such as current_date in the default_value column would be problematic. To avoid that, this patch stores the selection mode separately in format_store as default_value_mode, with fixed_date and current_date as its possible values.

With this approach, administrators can choose either a fixed date or Today as the default value for date custom fields without storing a special token in the default_value column.