I'm trying to insert a record containing a birthdate with
activescaffold. However, the year-dropdown box is only showing years
starting from 2002. This means that people over 5 years old cannot use
the application which, unfortunately, does not meet the functional
requirements. (Would save lots of difficult questions though!)

How can I set the starting year? With standard rails it is set like
this:

date_select :geboortedatum, :order =>
[:day, :month, :year], :start_year => 1970, :end_year => 2000

The funny thing is that in 'edit mode', the years start at 1969 but in
'new' mode it starts at 2002.

Thanks in advance,
Ger Apeldoorn