Magento programmatically create order with custom

i'm trying to automatically create new orders in magento based from data given by textfiles coming from somewhere. This is the basic code i'm using:

$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($productId);
$request = new Varien_Object();
$request->setData(array(
    'product' => $product->getId(),
    'qty' => 1,
    'options' => array(
        30 => 'some text...',
        8 => 'some other text...',
        7 => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
    )
));
$quote = Mage::getModel('sales/quote')
    ->setStoreId($storeId)
    ->setIsMultiShipping(false)
    ->setCheckoutMethod('guest')
    ->setCustomerId(null)
    ->setCustomerEmail($customerEmail)
    ->setCustomerIsGuest(true)
    ->setCustomerGroupId(Mage_Customer_Model_Group::NOT_LOGGED_IN_ID);

$quote->addProduct($product, $request);
// ...the interesting part ends here

Custom option with id "7" is of type "date" (configured from Magento's web backend), and this is definitely what causes problems: this snippet works well when custom option 7 is changed to type "text field".

If i inspect the contents of the $quote object after calling addProduct(), i see that the value of custom option 7 is not a date string, as expected, but a single digit (which appears to be exactly the first digit of the date formatted as Y-m-d H:i:s, thus the first digit of the year, as i tried with different years).

If i change the type of option 7 to text, the whole date string is correctly saved inside the $quote object.

As additional information, if i let the script go on through all the order-creating process, what i get is an exception that says:

Unsupported ISO8601 format (2)

where the number 2 is the first digit of the date i was talking before. So i tried to use the iso8601 format:

7 => date('c')

with no effect at all.

The stack trace of that exception is:

#0 app/code/core/Zend/Date.php(1091): Zend_Date->_calculate('set', '2', 'c', 'it_IT')
#1 app/code/core/Zend/Date.php(210): Zend_Date->set('2', 'c', 'it_IT')
#2 app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Locale.php(494): Zend_Date->__construct('2', 'c', Object(Zend_Locale))
#3 app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Product/Option/Type/Date.php(167): Mage_Core_Model_Locale->date('2', 'c', NULL, false)
#4 app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Product/Type/Abstract.php(620): Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Option_Type_Date->getFormattedOptionValue('2')
#5 app/code/core/Mage/Sales/Model/Convert/Quote.php(141): Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Type_Abstract->getOrderOptions(Object(Mage_Catalog_Model_Product)) 
#6 app/code/core/Mage/Sales/Model/Service/Quote.php(170): Mage_Sales_Model_Convert_Quote->itemToOrderItem(Object(Mage_Sales_Model_Quote_Item))
#7 app/code/core/Mage/Sales/Model/Service/Quote.php(249): Mage_Sales_Model_Service_Quote->submitOrder()
#8 wbs-import-orders.php(309): Mage_Sales_Model_Service_Quote->submitAll()
#9 {main}

So, how to make this custom option of type "date" accept date strings? Is it even correct to pass date strings that way?

Thank you all!

I guessed it and i guessed it right! Yay!

$request->setData(array(
    'product' => $product->getId(),
    'qty' => 1,
    'options' => array(
         30 => 'some text...',
         8 => 'some other text...',
         7 => array(
             'year' => 2014,
             'month' => 1,
             'day' => 23
         )
    )
));

This is correctly saved as an option of type 'date'.