check if an item is a date

[Rob Cozens]

Xavier,

I accidentally deleted your message before going throught it in depth; so 
I'm working from memory.

What is the source of the large numbr of dates you are 
processing/validating?  If the source is automated, why aren't the dates 
validated at input?

Are you really needing to make sure the string is a valid date, or are you 
parsing for specific dates?

Rob Cozens, Staff Conservator
Mendonoma Marine Life Conservancy

"...three factors have forever altered the traditional ''freedoms''
  coincident with the hunter-gatherer way of life:

  * swift population increase...,
  * the rapid advance of technology, and, most influential &...dangerous of 
all,
  * a perverse, self-centered mind-set that shapes the character of many 
human actions"

   -- Sylvia A. Earle, in Sea Change