Manipulating dates in InfoPath 2010

Hello,
I am trying to dynamically populate a date field to post the date seven days from now. In other words, a week from today.
I thought that the function addDays(today(),7) would work, but the date field throws a validation error and says that "only date or datetime values are allowed."
I figured the problem was with how the date was displayed as it was displaying in yyyy-mm-dd format. So, I decided to format the date as such mm/dd/yyyy using the following rule:
concat(substring(xdDate:AddDays(xdDate:Today(), 7), 6, 2), "/", substring(xdDate:AddDays(xdDate:Today(), 7), 9, 2), "/", substring(xdDate:AddDays(xdDate:Today(), 7), 1, 4))
The format looks ok, but InfoPath still throws the validation error. Any help would be appreciated.
David

I figured it out, I should have used the Now() function with a SharePoint list instead of Today()

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