From ee3ce7b6c20861509b6ae72287ccd03eb20fb2e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Baumgold <david@davidbaumgold.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 09:45:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Don't ignore null datetimes on subsection settings

Clicking "Sync to <course>" should send an AJAX request with the datetimes
set to null, so that the server resets them.
---
 cms/static/js/base.js | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cms/static/js/base.js b/cms/static/js/base.js
index bb772da02b..80b24776da 100644
--- a/cms/static/js/base.js
+++ b/cms/static/js/base.js
@@ -313,9 +313,9 @@ function saveSubsection() {
             document.getElementById(name+"_date"),
             document.getElementById(name+"_time")
         );
-        if (datetime) {
-            metadata[name] = datetime;
-        }
+        // if datetime is null, we want to set that in metadata anyway;
+        // its an indication to the server to clear the datetime in the DB
+        metadata[name] = datetime;
     });
 
     $.ajax({