[AccessD] Short Date Input Mask question

In the local provincial government, the standard preferred is dd Mon
yyyy/dd-Mmm-yyyy or 10 Mar 2004 and there never is any confusion.

Jim

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Bryan
Carbonnell
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:48 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Short Date Input Mask question


> whether the user is military trained (euro dating) or public school
trained
> (US dating you hope) or wants to type in the alpha month, I get him
there

Don't you mean "US public school trained (US dating you hope)"? :)

I would expect that public school trained folks here in Canada to use
d-m-y and not m-d-y :-)

Although I believe I was taught y-m-d, but maybe that was in
University. I don't remeber Getting too senile

Bryan Carbonnell
bryan_carbonnell at cbc.ca


>>> wdhindman at bellsouth.net 17-Mar-04 4:44:47 PM >>>
...yes and no ...convenient but a suck for bad data entry ime ...one
types
in 6/1/2004 ...one types in 1/6/2004 ...one types in 1 jun 04 and tabs
on
down the line, etc ...lecture me all day on dumb users but I don't have
the
option of firing them ...so I pop up a small calendar every time ...if
the
user enters directly in the text box, the calendar moves to the date
entered
to provide visual feedback ...if he/she selects from the calendar it
fills
the text box ...either way they can mouse it or keyboard it ...so no
matter
whether the user is military trained (euro dating) or public school
trained
(US dating you hope) or wants to type in the alpha month, I get him
there
somehow so that the right date gets entered ...nothings foolproof but
date
entry errors have gone to zero ...which is worth the cost of the popup
to me
and my clients.

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