Address Book, change default date field?

I have added a date field to address book. I use it to set a creation date for a contact. Currently, the default content for this field is 12/31/2000.
Does anyone know a way to change this? I’d like the field year to be the current year.

Hi Adnan,
I am fairly sure that you cannot access or change the behaviour of the date/time field to that extent. You can script the field to have a particular value or to be a constant from the date selected; but you cannot define the default value.
Happy holidays,
Niall

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