I am real confident I'm doing something wrong in my setup here but don't know how to fix this.

When I don't assign a value to a BO date field, they are being assigned a date of 1/1/1800 somehow (see below image and where the breakpoint currently is in relation to the value being displayed)

I have setup my BO to return 1/1/1980 on NULL but that is not coming through.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?