check if an item is a date

[MisterX]

part of the solution is

return (it is not a number and it is a date)
-- it is more likely a date 

however this wont work for dates like
put 01012005 is a date

So a coerced or forced check on date type would be necessary...
Any ideas? I dont trust the convert function anymore either...

cheers
Xavier

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> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 13:39
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> Subject: check if an item is a date
> 
> 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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