Re: [FormMagick-devel] CVS: formmagick/examples validations.pl,1.4,1.5

[Gordon R. <go...@e-...>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:32:46PM -0700, Ryan King <rya...@us...> wrote:
> [...]
> Yay!  The date() validation routine works!

"Oh no it doesn't" :-)

> [...]
> --- 34,38 ----
>               number => '-42',
>               word => 'chocolate',
> !             date => '12/31/2001',
>           },
> [...]

Hmm, 12th day of the 31st month - interesting calendar :-) Sorry, can
never resist a dig the U.S. date format (yes, I know we say "December 31", 
so it does make some sense).

Does the date validation understand dates from the rest of the world?

It needs to handle:

	date => '31/12/2001' 		# Most of the world
	date => '12/31/2001' 		# U.S.
	date => '2001/12/31' 		# Japan

with at least '/' and '-' as valid separators.

Also, the muslim calendar is back around 1370, so be careful about year
validation (yes, that can be a "not in this release").

Gordon
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