[AccessD] Short Date Input Mask question

...none that have not been addressed :)

William Hindman
You know the world is upside down when Bill Clinton wins a Grammy and Janet
Jackson is the subject of a government sex investigation. Argus Hamilton.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Carbonnell" <Bryan_Carbonnell at cbc.ca>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Short Date Input Mask question


> Causes a different set of problems though :-)
> 
> Bryan Carbonnell
> bryan_carbonnelL at cbc.ca
> 
> >>> wdhindman at bellsouth.net 17-Mar-04 12:20:41 PM >>>
> ...same here ...solves a LOT of problems :)
> 
> William Hindman
> You know the world is upside down when Bill Clinton wins a Grammy and
> Janet
> Jackson is the subject of a government sex investigation. Argus
> Hamilton.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Heenan, Lambert" <Lambert.Heenan at AIG.com>
> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:21 AM
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Short Date Input Mask question
> 
> 
> > My solution to date entry is simple - I never let user's type in a
> date.
> > They always pick the date from a simple calendar form (though I don't
>  use
> > the MS Calendar control). Click on a date field and up pops the date
> picker.
> > While this would not be suitable, perhaps, in applications where
> massive
> > numbers of dates need to be entered, I find it works just fine for
> me.
> >
> > Lambert
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Arthur Fuller [SMTP:artful at rogers.com] 
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 5:47 PM
> > > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> > > Subject: [AccessD] Short Date Input Mask question
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Arthur
> > >
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