diff --git a/es-app/src/guis/GuiScraperSearch.cpp b/es-app/src/guis/GuiScraperSearch.cpp
index 8fc1ea26d..1d218c877 100644
--- a/es-app/src/guis/GuiScraperSearch.cpp
+++ b/es-app/src/guis/GuiScraperSearch.cpp
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 //  to resolve scraping conflicts when run from GuiScraperMenu.
 //  The function to properly save scraped metadata is located here too.
 //
-//  This component is called from GuiGameScraper for single-game scraping and
+//  This GUI is called from GuiGameScraper for single-game scraping and
 //  from GuiScraperMulti for multi-game scraping.
 //
 
@@ -414,7 +414,9 @@ void GuiScraperSearch::updateInfoPane()
             mMD_Rating->setValue("");
             mMD_Rating->setOpacity(0);
         }
-        mMD_ReleaseDate->setValue("99990101T000000");
+        // Set the release date to this value to force DateTimeEditComponent to put a
+        // blank instead of the text 'unknown' prior to the scrape result being returned.
+        mMD_ReleaseDate->setValue("19700101T010101");
         mMD_Developer->setText("");
         mMD_Publisher->setText("");
         mMD_Genre->setText("");
diff --git a/es-app/src/guis/GuiScraperSearch.h b/es-app/src/guis/GuiScraperSearch.h
index 78e62a04c..636451bbb 100644
--- a/es-app/src/guis/GuiScraperSearch.h
+++ b/es-app/src/guis/GuiScraperSearch.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 //  to resolve scraping conflicts when run from GuiScraperMenu.
 //  The function to properly save scraped metadata is located here too.
 //
-//  This component is called from GuiGameScraper for single-game scraping and
+//  This GUI is called from GuiGameScraper for single-game scraping and
 //  from GuiScraperMulti for multi-game scraping.
 //
 
diff --git a/es-core/src/components/DateTimeEditComponent.cpp b/es-core/src/components/DateTimeEditComponent.cpp
index 03dd0abff..d162bdd07 100644
--- a/es-core/src/components/DateTimeEditComponent.cpp
+++ b/es-core/src/components/DateTimeEditComponent.cpp
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ void DateTimeEditComponent::updateTextCache()
 
     // Hack to set date string to blank instead of 'unknown'.
     // The calling function simply needs to set this string using setValue().
-    if (mTime.getIsoString() == "99990101T000000") {
+    if (mTime.getIsoString() == "19700101T010101") {
         dispString = "";
     }
     else {