"Is A Date" Question

[Ray G. Miller]

From: mcdomi at free.fr (Dom)

 > I go with a question about "is a date" problem.

 > As my stack goes with customized date format, I want to insure that the
 > user (me, for instance) entered a valid date...

 > I may be wrong, but it seems that the question " is a date" is true ONLY
 > with the standard US-english date format, i.e.



The "Is A Date" problem has been around since HyperCard...

In one app we developed, the date was crucial, so we force the user to 
choose from three pop btns: "Month", "Day", and "Year".

It's clunky for the user but many users will somehow get it "wrong".



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