Formatting a String to a Date String

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Re: Formatting a String to a Date String

Maybe you don't understand my answer.

If a document is written with a date, you cannot change that date, than it
is worthless for the law.

The sample from the OP is typical for cases were original dates comes from
documents or have there origin from documents. (It is of course possible
that it is not in this case, it can as well come from a webpage, however
than it still exist as it is by instance an accepted order, in that case the
error should be handled before the accept).

If you follow sport than you will would know that probably Landis will be
spoken free of doping just because of a wrong number in the accusing
documents.

Cor



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Cor Ligthert [MVP] <notmyfirstname @planet.nlwrote :

>29 february is not in a leap month it is a date in a leapyear in the
>Gregorian calendar, a leapmonth is something else in the Hebrewic
>calendar,
>I was sure that you would give an answer like you did.
>>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar
>>
>The rest is answered by Jay.

>
So in a few very specific cases, you'd want different validation, or
perhaps no validation at all. That's fine, but I don't think that's
*nearly* as common a requirement as "normal" date checking, which is
where using DateTime is the way to go.
>
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Re: Formatting a String to a Date String

Cor Ligthert [MVP] <notmyfirstname @planet.nlwrote :

Maybe you don't understand my answer.
>
If a document is written with a date, you cannot change that date, than it
is worthless for the law.
>
The sample from the OP is typical for cases were original dates comes from
documents or have there origin from documents. (It is of course possible
that it is not in this case, it can as well come from a webpage, however
than it still exist as it is by instance an accepted order, in that case the
error should be handled before the accept).

*If* that is the case, then it's fair enough - although I'd usually at
least generate a warning to highlight the incorrect data.

If you follow sport than you will would know that probably Landis will be
spoken free of doping just because of a wrong number in the accusing
documents.

That sounds like an argument *for* validation rather than against it.
The earlier the data is noticed to be incorrect, the better in my
experience.

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