[AccessD] Stupid DateTime/Calendar Picker Question

Gustav Brock gustav at cactus.dk
Fri Sep 19 11:07:44 CDT 2003


Hi Frank

Try wrapping these in CDate():

  datDateTimeStart = CDate([start_date] & " " & [start_time])
  datDateTimeStop = CDate([end_date] & " " & [end_time])

Then, use Format to display your date-time values.

/gustav


> Ok....Here's the scenario.  I have a report that I
> need to run.  It has a start date and time and a stop
> date and time, obviously.  The back-end database has
> the start and end times in DateTime format, I cannot
> deviate from this format in the backend.

> I have a calendar picker to select start date and one
> to select stop date.  I have a time picker to select
> the start time and stop time.  I have four text boxes
> that take the resultant dates and times from the
> ActiveX controls, so I can use them.  From there I
> have two text boxes that convert them to pseudo
> DateTime start and stop times thusly "=[start_date] &
> " " & [start_time]" and "=[end_date] & " " &
> [end_time]".  The resultant formats LOOK correctly
> formatted for the DateTime field.  I.e. they look like
> 9/19/2003 5:00:00 AM.  HOWEVER they don't seem to work
> properly against the ACTUAL DateTime fields in my
> back-end database when I use a Between statement.



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