is a date broke?

[Sarah Reichelt]

On 5/2/07, Chipp Walters <chipp at chipp.com> wrote:
> How come when you put in the msg box:
>
> put "01/01/01 are you kidding me" is a date
>
> you get true? Am I missing something?
> How do you validate a date entry?


Under 2.8.1-dp-1, "is a date" was rejecting too much. Under dp-2 & 3,
it hardly rejects anything. From my tests, anything with 3 numbers
separated by slashes will pass the test.

Bug #4641
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=4641>

Sarah