[AccessD] Date Format Not Working

[Rocky Smolin]

But the solutions didn't work. So I'm using Long Date format instead of the
client's custom format.

So with Bill's help 2 functions - one that returns string and one that
returns date. 

Private Function GetDate(argDate As String) As String
    GetDate = CDate(Right(argDate, Len(argDate) - InStr(1, argDate, ", ")))
End Function

Private Function GetDate2(argDate As String) As Date
    GetDate2 = CDate(Right(argDate, Len(argDate) - InStr(1, argDate, ", ")))
End Function

So wherever I need mm/dd/yyyy I call the function.

Thank you Dr Benson.

r
-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 3:55 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Date Format Not Working

Alhzeimers?  

Asked and answered 10 days ago

<quote>
On 17 Jun 2015 at 16:17, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> Dear List:
> 
> Access 2003 - VBA
> 
> Is there a function that will convert a date in a text box formatted 
> ddd d-mmm-yyyy (Fri 12-JUN-2015) to short date (mm/dd/yyyy) format?
> 
> MTIA
> 
> Rocky Smolin</quote>

and the solutions:

Datevalue doesn't like the ddd part so you need to strip it.  This works:
Format(datevalue(mid$("Fri 12-JUN-2015",5)),"mm/dd/yyyy")

and

If it is an actual date field in a textbox, explicitly use txtSomeDate.Value
rather than txtSomeDate  or txtSomeDate.Text 




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