Cetin,

>I think you don't misread but I miswrite :)
>date(1999,2,29) would return an empty date but Joe might need it to be treated valid time to time. For example :
>
>'Please enter check date' and 2, 29 picked. For a special case it might mean process all dates in table where day(myDate)=29 and month(myDate)=2 (I see you smiling seeing an example with solution in itself :)
>What I mean I simply don't know if Feb29 would always be invalid for Joe or not.

I tihnk I see what you are saying...he might want to have Feb 29th be a repeating date or something, so even if it is invalid for a certain year, it might be valid later...the only day of the year that can sometimes disappear! I see what you are saying now, and it is as elegant as your original solution!

Happy New Year!

JoeK