Hi, is there a way to default a value even if the key is optional in the schema?

I have a map which may or may not have a date entry. In the latter case I want to default it to now

(m/decode [:map
           [:date {:optional true}
            [:maybe [:string {:decode/string mt/-string->date :default (tick/now)}]]]]
          {}
          (mt/transformer mt/string-transformer mt/default-value-transformer))

returns {} which doesn't surprise me.

What does a default for an optional property even mean? never mind, misread and I see that you explained it