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title: "A Date-Checking Google Apps Script for Your Google Forms"
author: "Phil Bainbridge"
date: 2025-01-28T19:27:21+00:00
modified: 2025-01-28T19:29:58+00:00
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description: "This latest post from Phil Bainbridge provides a Google Apps Script designed to check that a date submitted through a Google Form is both in the future and falls on a Wednesday. Phil developed this as part of a newsletter submission process to help validate information and inform a user when they had not followed the instructions, saving time and ensuring accuracy. It has been developed for UK dates and may need adjusting for your own time zone. You can find the full script and instructions in Phil's original post."
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# A Date-Checking Google Apps Script for Your Google Forms

![A Date-Checking Google Apps Script for Your Google Forms](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2025/01/CheckGoogleFormdate.png)

> Google Apps Script to check that a date submitted via a Google Form is both in the future and falls on a Wednesday.
> [https://www.pbainbridge.co.uk/2025/01/check-date-in-future-and-wednesday.html](https://www.pbainbridge.co.uk/2025/01/check-date-in-future-and-wednesday.html)Google Form question asking for a date to be entered

The following Google Apps Script is designed to check that a date submitted via a Google Form is both in the future and falls on a Wednesday. This was developed as part of a newsletter submission process to help validate information and inform a user when they had not followed the instructions. It has been developed for UK dates and may need adjusting for your own time zone.

Source: *[The Gift of Script: Check date in future and a Wednesday*](https://www.pbainbridge.co.uk/2025/01/check-date-in-future-and-wednesday.html)

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*Published by [Phil Bainbridge](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/author/phillipbainbridge/) on [Pulse](https://pulse.appsscript.info/). Original article: [https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2025/01/check-date-in-future-and-a-wednesday/](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2025/01/check-date-in-future-and-a-wednesday/)*