oh, that's gonna start a holy war about how much responsibility we as developers have to protect the users from themselves : )

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Thomas Chiverton
  To: CF-Talk
  Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 9:48 AM
  Subject: Re: isDate and its shortcomings

  On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 16:38 pm, Tony Weeg wrote:
  > something that is really funky, like isDate() lets 12/1/0199 through, since
  > its in a valid
  > format, but then other systems will typically bomb with that, like sql
  > server...

  Just knock up your own that checks it's within a valid date range then.

  Me, I'm happy to let my users enter dates far in the past, it's rather their
  own fault.

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