[AccessD] Import Date from Excel

David Emerson davide at dalyn.co.nz
Wed Mar 17 18:25:06 CST 2004


A further piece of info - I can't set the SQL field to datetime as it 
rejects the number as not being a date when it is imported.

David

At 18/03/2004, you wrote:
>I have a spreadsheet in Excel that is imported into a SQL2000 
>table.  Because the field types are unknown the SQL fields are varchar(200).
>
>The problem is with dates - excel shows a date as 2/1/2004 but in the SQL 
>table it is imported as 38018.
>
>I am using VBA to deal with each row at a time.  How do I convert the 
>number (38018) into a date?
>
>Regards
>
>David Emerson
>Dalyn Software Ltd
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