[3.9.20 / 4.0.b4] Articles Category Module - Article Field to Order By (Descending Bug)

[LuxLOL]

Steps to reproduce the issue

I noticed that if i set the option "Article Field to Order By" to "Descending" then it will sort the Articles with the database entries "0000-00-00 00:00:00" first before everything else. The correct way would be to filter this Articles out or sorted then at the very end.

Expected result

Sorting Descending:
Articles -> 2020-01-04 08:08:12
Articles -> 2020-01-03 13:34:52
OR:
Articles -> 2020-01-04 08:08:12
Articles -> 2020-01-03 13:34:52
Articles -> 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Actual result

Sorting Descending:
Articles -> 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Articles -> 2020-01-04 08:08:12
Articles -> 2020-01-03 13:34:52

System information (as much as possible)

PHP v7.4.8 and MySQL v5.5.5-10

Additional comments

[richard67]

In 3.9.x this might be an issue. But in 4.0? There should not be any old 0000-00-00 dates anymore, they should have real null values instead, or if not nullable have a value not equal to this old null date.

@LuxLOL Have you really tested that on a 4.0 with a new installation or with an updated one from 3.10 (which might have been previously updated from 3.9.x)? I doubt there were really null dates.

[LuxLOL]

It looks like it dose not add this 0000-00-00 00:00:00 entries anymore. But it still sets the "Modified Date" if you create a new Article which should only be set if you edit a Article that already exists.

[LuxLOL]

There was bug in an extensions that caused this 0000-00-00 problem.

Now Joomla writes the creating date into the modified date when their no date exists.
But this is even worse because now i can't even separate the Updated Articles from the Latest Articles.

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