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In article <36e2ca7c.5461887@forums.inprise.com>, Steve Koterski politely 
paraphrased ...
> >But only if you use the slash as separator, if you use the dot, it works. 
> >It seems to think it's US dates only when it sees the "/"
> 
> You are saying that DD.MM.YYYY is acceptable in local SQL? I have to ask
> you because I cannot test this. I do not have access to a non-US
> BDE/Delphi/computer. 
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I use only US versions as well, only SET DATE GERMAN is needed in VdB, I 
guess Delphi has something similar.

> What is the date format in the Windows configuration?
> And how does this configuration parameter affect use of this format, if it
> affects it at all? I mean, does this only work if you have the system date
> format set up to use dots as date element separators?
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Yes.

> This could be a dilemma in the local SQL online help, where I specify that
> only the US format is acceptable. I am not comfortable including something
> in this document without being able to empirically test it.

We had a thread here a couple of weeks ago where we noticed this 
behaviour.

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