Set Special Price Programmatically In Magento

Question

I am trying to write a script that will set a special price on a product with a start and an end date. When I run my script it does successfully set the special price, but t

Answer 1

This is just a guess but have you tried passing a timestamp like from time() and leaving out the setSpecialFromDateIsFormated(true)? That should cause the backend model to reformat it appropriately for you.