[AccessD] Un-American Date Filter

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu Mar 31 19:07:30 CDT 2011


I remember when New Zealand went metric with its currency back in the '70s.

A friend was going overseas and was told by another friend that we were changing over to 
metric time next and was asked if could he bring back a metric watch.

-- 
Stuart


On 31 Mar 2011 at 16:44, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> Metric dates...hmm... 10 days per week, then?
> 
> Rocky
> 
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darryl
> Collins Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 4:01 PM To: Access Developers
> discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Un-American Date
> Filter
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> Hi Rocky,
> 
> To avoid these sort of issues I use dateserial on each and every date
> I process in SQL / VBA to make sure they line up correctly.  Also from
> memory the VBE treats all dates passed in VBA as American format as
> default, regardless of the PC's regional setting. Coming from the land
> of "dd-mm-yyyy" as standard it is an issue I need to deal with a lot.
> 
> Now, if only you pesky Americans got with the program, used a proper
> date format and just swallowed your pride and admit the French were
> right and adopt the (far superior) metric system it would make life
> for the rest of the planet much easier.  ;)
> 
> cheers
> Darryl. 
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky
> Smolin Sent: Friday, 1 April 2011 5:35 AM To: 'Access Developers
> discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Un-American
> Date Filter
> 
> Doug:
> 
> When I change the code to 
> 
> "DueDate >= #" & CDate(Format(Me.txtGEDueDate, "dd/m/yyyy")) & "#"
> 
> And
> 
> "DueDate <= #" & CDate(Format(Me.txtLEDueDate, "dd/mm/yyyy")) & "#"
> 
> the sql statement still comes out:
> 
> INSERT INTO tblKittingToMIS ( PartNumber, OrderNumber, DueDate,
> QuantityDue ) SELECT tblDemand.PartNumber, tblDemand.OrderNumber,
> tblDemand.DueDate, tblDemand.QuantityDue FROM tblDemand  WHERE DueDate
> >= #31/03/2011# AND DueDate <= #07/04/2011#
> 
> And still no date filtering.
> 
> R
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:21 AM To: Access Developers
> discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Un-American Date
> Filter
> 
> Hi Rocky:
> 
> I've dealt with this in the past by forcing the date format to
> mm/dd/yy in the SQL, something like:
> 
> WHERE DueDate >= Cdate(format(ClientInputDateFrom,"mm/dd/yy"))....etc
> 
> Doug
> 
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Rocky Smolin
> <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: > Dear List: > > I create a temp table
> using a SQL statement I construct in code to > incorporate various
> filter - one of which is a date filter. > > Works well here but when I
> send it to the user in Bahrain who's > regional setting is (I assume
> from the screen shot he sent) English > U.K. where the date format is
> dd/mm/yyyy it fails.  I set my regional > settings on my box to U.K.
> and sure enough it fails - returns all > records with no date
> filtering. > > Here's the SQL statement that creates the table: > >
> INSERT INTO tblKittingToMIS ( PartNumber, OrderNumber, DueDate, >
> QuantityDue > ) SELECT tblDemand.PartNumber, tblDemand.OrderNumber, >
> tblDemand.DueDate, tblDemand.QuantityDue FROM tblDemand  WHERE DueDate
> > >= #31/03/2011# AND DueDate <= #07/04/2011# > > which is supposed to
> filter out any record in tblDemand where the Due > Date is outside of
> the range March 31 to April 7.  But it don't. > > When I look in
> tblDemand, the dates are displayed properly as dd/mm/yyyy. > > Why
> doesn't this work?  Should I be using some kind of different > syntax
> for this filter? > > MTIA > > > Rocky Smolin > > Beach Access Software
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