Date - DD/MM/YYYY etc... perhaps check that's its possible

You should be aware that this date format is particularly nonstandard and difficult to check. Use of ISO date formats YYYY/MM/DD or similar should be standard practice for all professional programmers. In fact I would even go so far as to suggest that a programmer that blindly allows DD/MM/YYYY even at the request of a client is doing the client a disservice. ISO standards and their relatives (DIN for example specifies the same format) are there for a reason.

Incidentally to back this claim up consider that MM/DD/YYYY and DD/MM/YYYY are both popular written date formats. Unfortunately there is no way to determine if 02/03/2003 is the third of Febuary or the second of March. There is no such ambiguity in YYYY/MM/DD. (Or if there is I would argue it is of signifigantly less likelyhood of occuring.)

--- demerphq
my friends call me, usually because I'm late....

In reply to Re: Data Validation Tests by demerphq
in thread Data Validation Tests by Flame

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