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From: Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:36:35 +0200
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justaguy wrote:
> I've entered the value of "9/25/2012" (of course without quotes) for
> the dateField entry, but the case switch returns to default, so, I
> guess 9/25/2012  is not the value for a date, then what?

See
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date>:

| The JavaScript date is measured in milliseconds since midnight
| 01 January, 1970 UTC.

BTW: you should terminate your case clauses with break, if they are not
otherwise terminated, to avoid a fall-through.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker