ion-datetime with no value set shows the first January of the current year when opened

[ryaa]

Bug Report

Ionic version:

[x] 4.x

Current behavior:

ion-datetime control within a reactive form with no value set shows 1st of January 2019 (current year) when opened

Expected behavior:

It should default to the current date (this is how it works in Ionic 3)

Steps to reproduce:

See below

Related code:
Here is ion-datetime control inside a reactive form
<ion-datetime formControlName="<FIELD_NAME>" pickerFormat="MM/DD/YYYY" displayFormat="DDD, D MMM YYYY"></ion-datetime>
Please note that the control is set to null in the reactive form

StackBlitz (https://stackblitz.com)
Not possible due to this bug #16354

Ionic info:

Ionic:

   ionic (Ionic CLI)             : 4.5.0 (/Users/alexryltsov/.nvm/versions/node/v10.14.2/lib/node_modules/ionic)
   Ionic Framework               : @ionic/angular 4.0.1
   @angular-devkit/build-angular : 0.12.3
   @angular-devkit/schematics    : 7.2.3
   @angular/cli                  : 7.2.3
   @ionic/angular-toolkit        : 1.2.3

Capacitor:

   capacitor (Capacitor CLI) : 1.0.0-beta.17
   @capacitor/core           : 1.0.0-beta.17

Cordova:

   cordova (Cordova CLI) : 8.1.2 ([email protected])
   Cordova Platforms     : none
   Cordova Plugins       : no whitelisted plugins (5 plugins total)

System:

   Android SDK Tools : 26.1.1 (/Users/alexryltsov/Library/Android/sdk/)
   NodeJS            : v10.14.2 (/Users/alexryltsov/.nvm/versions/node/v10.14.2/bin/node)
   npm               : 6.5.0
   OS                : macOS Mojave
   Xcode             : Xcode 10.1 Build version 10B61

[ryaa]

This bug could be related to #16436 and #15792 and #9846

[liamdebeasi]

Hi there,

Thanks for opening an issue with us! I currently have a PR open that will fix this: #17443

Hoping to get this merged in soon.

Thanks for using Ionic!

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