Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Tue Mar 16 16:05:42 CST 2004
On 16 Mar 2004 at 14:47, Arthur Fuller wrote: > 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? > I gave up using date input masks long ago, they are a PITA. A lot of date entry tends to be for the current year and it's so simple to just enter 4/4 using the numieric keypad. -- Lexacorp Ltd http://www.lexacorp.com.pg Information Technology Consultancy, Software Development,System Support.