While it is possible, you will get into trouble when your calculated date
falls in February or in a month that has 30 days instead of 31.
It is best to write code to perform such date calculations. Search this
newsgroup on "add days" to find posts on how this can be done.
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S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton
> I have date field and would like to set its default value to be 6
> months prior to today.
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> results from the today function such that it returns a date 6 months
> prior to today?