When creating or editing a quote there is no date input field for the quote issue date. But quotes added to an opportunity appear in a list where the first field is the issue date. Since this field is not filled in, it is always empty in the list.
I suggest to either modify editQuote.ftl to let the user fill in the issue date or change the quotes list in viewOpportunity, e.g. to show validFromDate and validToDate instead of issueDate. The current logic seems to point into the second direction.