diff --git a/Examples-and-Recipes.md b/Examples-and-Recipes.md
index 3dee666..8567ce0 100644
--- a/Examples-and-Recipes.md
+++ b/Examples-and-Recipes.md
@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ I want to find all dates for some year `y` which are the 5th Friday of the month
     fifth_friday(date::year y)
     {
         using namespace date;
-        std::array<year_month_day, 5> dates{0_y/0/0, 0_y/0/0, 0_y/0/0, 0_y/0/0, 0_y/0/0};
+        constexpr auto nan = 0_y/0/0;
+        std::array<year_month_day, 5> dates{nan, nan, nan, nan, nan};
         unsigned n = 0;
         for (auto m = jan; true; ++m)
         {