Conditionally Formatting Dates

I'm working on a calendar. I have my generator working. Now I want to conditionally format days of the month, ie. colour the cell if the day falls within a defined range or equals a particular date like today. My main problem is the number series I've generated are just numbers, whereas my format condition is a date. Unlike Excel I'm unable to nest conditions of different formats in the one statement. I've tried an intermediate step by 'stripping out' the day data using the day function then acting on that which works so long as my date range does not extend longer than a month. If it does my result is erroneous.
Can someone give some ideas how I might achieve my intended result.
Thanks

Hi Yvan, thanks for your response. I thought I might be able to post an picture of my screen, but it appears I'm not able to do so. Ok, so I'll try and best describe what I'm trying to do.
My calendar is project-focused. I have two cells, a start date and an end date (these cells are formatted as dates). The start date is used to generate the calendar: its month, the previous month and the following 2 months. The end date can be any date you like. To produce each month in the calendar, the generator carries out a few tests in the first week and the last week of each month to find the day the first of the month falls on and the day the last of the month occurs. Once the first and the last days have been determined cells for the second, third fourth day etc merely increment the previous day by one until the last of the month is reached. The cells containing the numbers corresponding to the days in each month are just numbers - the sum of the previous day number plus 1. All this works fine.
Having generated the calendar, I want to highlight the date range between the start date and the end date using conditional formatting. I have this working in Excel with a conditional formating rule builds a date then tests to see if it is within the range of the start and end date; (=AND(DATE(YEAR,MONTH,DAY CELL [being formatted])>=(START DATE),DATE(YEAR,MONTH,DAY CELL [being formatted])<=END DATE).
Of course, Numbers does not have this complexity when it comes to conditional formatting, so I'm wondering if there is another way of doing it.
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