[AccessD] Short Date Input Mask question

A great case for a framework.  Define the various formats you use in your
text boxes and then tell the framework to figure out that it's a date and
apply a format.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Bryan
Carbonnell
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:16 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Short Date Input Mask question


My vote would be to get rid of the input mask al together and use the
Format Property to display it how you want.

I Have done that with what I'm dealing with now. No input masks, just
Formats on all the Date fields. That way the date can be entered just
about however the user wants to enter it

d-m-yy, d/m/yy, yy-mmm-d, yyyy-mmm-dd, m/d/yyyy, mm-dd-yy.............

And Access formats it into yyyy-mmm-dd for my forms.

Makes like so much easier when you are dealing with a 30 hour day!!

Yep a broadcast day is 30 hours long <sigh> Midnight to 0600 the
following morning, or sign on, which ever comes first.

Bryan Carbonnell
bryan_carbonnell at cbc.ca

>>> artful at rogers.com 16-Mar-04 5:47:18 PM >>>
The standard short date input mask (99/99/0000;0;_) has a shortcoming
that I hate: you have to type 04/04/04 to get April 4th 2004. The year
handling is nice but the month and day suck. The mask won't let you
type
4/4/04. Is there an alternative mask that will respond intelligently
to
such input? Or should I instead just remove all the input masks from
all
the date fields?

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