Search Console date picker broke, then was fixed

The date picker in Search Console’s performance reports broke on 13 October 2026. Barry Schwartz reports in Google Search Console Performance Report Date Picker Not Working that the end date was stuck in 1969 and would not change. The report is user-reported, and a fix was reported the same day.

What exactly broke?#

Schwartz writes that the end date in the custom range “seems to be stuck in 1969”. When he tried to change it, the picker said “Date can’t be after 1969-12-31”.

He spotted the problem through a post on X by a user named Punit, who sees the end date as 1970-01-01. Schwartz calls the 1969 value “not that unusual” for date picker bugs, but says he could not get past it.

What still worked?#

Schwartz says the default selections worked: 24 hours, 7 days, 28 days, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and 16 months. The failure appeared when he chose a custom date range. If you needed a specific window during the bug, those presets were the part of the picker he reports as working.

Did Google respond?#

We found no Google statement about the bug. Schwartz’s post links no Google response, and we saw no entry for it on the Google Search Status Dashboard, which covers search systems rather than Search Console’s interface. Everything above is as reported by Schwartz and one user on X.

Is it fixed?#

Schwartz added an update at 9:10 am, with no time zone given, saying the date picker was fixed, and linked his own post on X. We have not been able to confirm that independently. The bug sits in the Search Console interface, not in the data behind the analytics it reports, and neither source says any data was lost.