Calendar bug?

[rulinsun]

rich:calendar with attributes
enableManualInput="true" and
datePattern="MM/dd/yy"

when user input "05/29/009" mistakely (for the 05/29/09), the calendar doesn't issue an converter error, but accepts the date as May 29 of year 9. I am using Richfaces 3.3.0. Is this a bug or we have to provide a date validator ourself?

Thanks!

Rulin

[ilya_shaikovsky]

It converts it to nearest valid date. In your case it is 2009 or 09 according to representation pattern.

[rulinsun]

I don't get you. User tries to input date of May 29, 2009, since the format is "MM/dd/yy", he suppose to input "05/29/09", but he made mistake and input as "05/29/009", the calendar accepted it as value of May 29, 9 (2000 years ago). This causes our application failed. My question is that do we need provide our own validator to prevent this, or the calendar suppose to handle this case.