Date validation on screen

[pivert]

I have a date-field on a screen. You can leave it blank, in which case it just displays " / / ". But once you enter a date, leave the field, come back and clear the date, you get stuck in the date-validation routine (the month of a date must be from 1 to 12).

Is there a way to reset the date-field to it's initial value? I've tried blanks, "/ /", ?

Using 10.1B & feeling sooooo stupid and frustrated... Tia. Peter.

 

[Cringer]

? should work and if it doesn't then you're doing something wrong...

 

[pivert]

? works, I forgot to re-display the field so I think the wrong (old) value keeps triggering the validation. It works now, thanks.