# Temporal.PlainDate — Invalid date clamping

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The {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDate/from", "Temporal.PlainDate.from()")}}, {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDate/with", "Temporal.PlainDate.prototype.with()")}}, {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDate/add", "Temporal.PlainDate.prototype.add()")}}, {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDate/subtract", "Temporal.PlainDate.prototype.subtract()")}} methods, and their counterparts in other Temporal objects, allow constructing dates using calendar-specific properties. The date components may be out of range. In the ISO calendar, this is always an _overflow_, such as the month being greater than 12 or the day being greater than the number of days, and fixing it would only involve clamping the value to the maximum allowed value. In other calendars, the invalid case may be more complex. When using the overflow: "constrain" option, invalid dates are fixed to a valid one in the following way

If the day doesn't exist but the month does: pick the closest day in the same month. If there are two equally-close dates in that month, pick the later one. If the month is a leap month that doesn't exist in the year: pick another date according to the cultural conventions of that calendar's users. Usually this will result in the same day in the month before or after where that month would normally fall in a leap year. If the month doesn't exist in the year for other reasons: pick the closest date that is still in the same year. If there are two equally-close dates in that year, pick the later one. If the entire year doesn't exist: pick the closest date in a different year. If there are two equally-close dates, pick the later one.

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