[AccessD] Birthday in table

Yes, Rocky, but if I then enter 29.02 (Feb), it makes 01.02 of it, cause it 
thinks its 2007 and there is no 29 Feb in 2007

Lembit



> Can't you define the field as Date/Time?
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> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 7:04 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] Birthday in table
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> Hi, everybody,
> I have tried to define a field in an A2003 table - in fact 2 fields - for
> birthday.
> thing is, in many cases I know only day and month, not the year.
> so I tried two fields: DD.MM as first and YYYY as second field.
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> a) it wont let me enter a year, and I had to make it Integer instead.
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> b) I can enter a day and month but it will add the year 2007 (behind the
> scenes) and therefore wont allow me to enter 29.02
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> now I can of course split it up into 3 fields: DD, MM, YYYY, but this 
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> allow any error resultin in 41.21 as DD.MM
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> so, how do you handle that? or do you allways have the full date including
> year?
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> thanks for any help
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> Lembit
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