SAP Message V5009 - The determined date & deviates from the specified contract start date

Diagnosis
The system compared the contract start date with the date determined bythe corresponding rule for contract start and found that they are notthe same.

System Response
The system will not allow any further processing.

Procedure
You can either delete the contract start rule, in order to copy thecontract start that was manually entered, or you can delete thecontract start date so that the date generated by the rule is copied.