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Article #30Re: Formatting a user input date
From: LenHewitt
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:21
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:21
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Jeremy, I've always found by far the safest way to allow users to input date data is with 3 listboxes, one for day, one for month and one for year. It avoids them abbreviating months in various ways such as Sept. , Sep, sept., sep, September, september, 9, 09 etc. It also avoids the problem where European users will input in the dmy format whereas American users will use the mdy format You can then 're-assemble' the 3 values into a single string variable to suit usage.
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