check if an item is a date

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

Hi everyone,

Although I discovered this bug using MetaCard, it wasn't surprising that 
it didn't work either in Rev...

After the date sorting and conversion problems, this comes as the cherry 
on the cake...

I got this nice table "title" field which automatically sorts the columns 
below.

I've been improving it consistently do a better job each time I reuse it.

So now, it detects automatically if it should sort up or down, numbers or 
dates, etc...

No matter that I get weird data gathering item 3 of it... yet ANOTHER bug!

But surprise! 

put (2485694 is a date)

It gets worse... 1 is also a date!

So either the << is a date>> function is useless as a date checker and we 
all must roll our own AGAIN or
there is a bug (or dare i add sarcastically "all of the above")... 

Is there something I missed? Can you enforce dateformat checking like you 
would in C via type casting?

The documentation was useless... Another bugzilla would delay further the 
other bugzillas which are 
blocking the release of 3 softwares since months... 

Any ideas other than writing YetAnotherBugDetour function?

Xavier


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