This field is a "lazy date" field. It will accept the following formats of dates:
1jan, 01jan, 15jan, 1jan55, 14may45
Letters can be in upper or lower case. If you do not include the year, the field will assume the current year. Upon entry, your "lazy date" will be converted to the long date format used by Hypercard. Hypercard can then recognize it for sorts and other calculations. To use this field in your stacks, copy and paste it into them. You may rename the field (unlike the earlier version) or change any of it's other properties. Do not use it for other types of data or other date formats as it may get confused. This is the second version (2jan88) and is almost four times faster than the first one (with a much shorter script). If you hate 1/1/87 formats like I do and if the others are just too much to type, you will like this field.