I never got any answer here on the forum . So I called IRCC. The lady told me , that this error wasn’t large enough to warrant returning the application. Worst case scenario we may have to redo and upload only IMM5669 “if the officer is really anal.” that’s her words not mine! So I just sent the application in with my wife’s name typed in the box , signature and date in blue ink. We’ll see what happens . It’s supposed to be delivered today so AOR1 will come after christmas . Or not .
That's pretty funny.
I don't have an answer, believe I did input the date, BUT: that form has pretty strong validation (anything important left out it will not let you finalize). And in truth, since signatories are supposed to include actual date of signing and not printing, it would be somewhat incorrect for them to force you to include a date.
So I'm guessing they will accept the way you did it as long as the date is legible and unambiguous.
One very small but unlikely issue is machine-reading of docs and Canadian government attempting to use YYYY-MM-DD to avoid data/date issues across government systems. This leaves small possibility it will get 'kicked out' due to some combination of data entry faults and humans not wanting to correct/ambiguous dates/data issues or, indeed, just being 'really anal.'
But I think the strongest point is that signatory is supposed to put actual date of signing, not printing. I bet there are enough lawyers around that have screamed about this and caused problems for CIC that internal instructions would be to accept as long as date is clear.