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Error message when you enter February 29 in the Birthday field in SharePoint Server 2007: The date you have entered is not in a valid format

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Article ID: 936912 - Last Review: May 14, 2007 - Revision: 1.0

Error message when you enter February 29 in the "Birthday" field in SharePoint Server 2007: "The date you have entered is not in a valid format"

SYMPTOMS

You visit the View User Profiles Web page in the SharePoint Shared Services Administration Web site in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. You enter February 29 in the Birthday field, and then you click Save and Close. When you do this, you receive the following error message:
The date you have entered is not in a valid format, or it is outside of the valid range of dates. Reenter a valid date in the format May 03

CAUSE

This behavior occurs because SharePoint Server 2007 does not support February 29 as a birthday value. This is because most users who have birthdays that occur on February 29 select February 28 or March 1 as their annual birthday. Additionally, birthdays that occur on February 29 do not work correctly in non-Gregorian calendars.

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, you must enter February 28 or March 1 as the birthday value.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
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