Answers.Body: <p>Date Preferences at civicrm/admin/setting/preferences/date?reset=1 can be edited so the 'offset' is greater than 20 (years)</p>
  
  <p>SO you can edit Date for activities (including contributions: receive, receipt, cancel. membership: join, start, renew. case: start, end.) and set it to have years going back further than 1996 (ie 20 years)</p>
  
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Body: <p>We're on Civi 4.6.17 and Drupal 7. </p>
  
  <p>We have historic data that was imported from a previous system. There are some Contributions of type Member Dues that I want to change to a different Contribution Type - [Organization Name] Contribution - because the Contribution was misclassified when originally entered or imported. </p>
  
  <p>But, the contribution was made before 1/1/1996. When I Edit the Contribution type a message pops up to "Please enter a date between 01/01/1996 and 12/31/2026".</p>
  
  <p>Is the only way around this to go in to the back-end MySQL table for Contributions and change the type? </p>
  
Tags: <civicontribute><civimember><contributions><date-preferences>
Title: How do I change the contribution type for a contribution that was made before 1/1/1996?
ThreadText: # How do I change the contribution type for a contribution that was made before 1/1/1996?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-06-07)
  
  We're on Civi 4.6.17 and Drupal 7.
  
  We have historic data that was imported from a previous system. There are some Contributions of type Member Dues that I want to change to a different Contribution Type - [Organization Name] Contribution - because the Contribution was misclassified when originally entered or imported.
  
  But, the contribution was made before 1/1/1996. When I Edit the Contribution type a message pops up to "Please enter a date between 01/01/1996 and 12/31/2026".
  
  Is the only way around this to go in to the back-end MySQL table for Contributions and change the type?
  
  **Tags:** civicontribute, civimember, contributions, date-preferences
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-06-07. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  Date Preferences at civicrm/admin/setting/preferences/date?reset=1 can be edited so the 'offset' is greater than 20 (years)
  
  SO you can edit Date for activities (including contributions: receive, receipt, cancel. membership: join, start, renew. case: start, end.) and set it to have years going back further than 1996 (ie 20 years)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: 1996 being 20 years ago makes me feel really old!  
  > **username_1**: Does 1966 being 50 years ago make you feel better?  
  
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