Date fomula not working

.. in A2, I enter "1/3" (ie 3th Jan) and I expect A2 to
read "3 Jan 2008", but "3 Jan 2009" appeared.

well, that was precisely my point/sugegstion to you in my earlier response,

A real date is a full valid, unambiguous date
(day-month-year) recognized by Excel, eg: 01-Jan-2009.

If you always practice entering dates as full dates, you won't get caught
out with ambiguities such as what happened as you described. If you don't
enter the date with the year in it - that's what you did, Excel will then
assume the year is the current year (from the PC's clock), hence you get: "3
Jan 2009". You got "3 Jan 2008" previously because you entered it sometime
last year (in 2008). Take my suggestion, never skimp on the data entry step
when it comes to dates. Always enter it unambiguously in full, inclusive of
the year, and use "mmm" format to denote the month as well in the date entry.
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