how does "start no earlier than" actually work (MS Project)

[carpeliam]

I have a "Start no earlier than..." constraint on a particular task. I have not been able to set the task start date to the same date as the constraint date. Why is this? I would understand if the date was before the start date, but on the same day? Liam Morley
lmorley@wpi.edu
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[elizabeth]

Are you doing this through the GUI? When I do this, the start date is automatically set to be the same as the constraint date, I don't need to separately set the start date.