Date format from 1.1.2009 to 01.01.2009

[Carl_and_Earl]

I want to make a field to change the date from 1.1.2009 to 01.01.2009 on lost
focus.

Thanks!

 

[John W. Vinson]

What is the Format property of the form textbox? -> Short Date
On your Windows desktop select Start... Control Panel... Regional and Language
Settings. What's the Short Date format? ->3/31/2009

That's the problem then.

Change the Format property of the form textbox from Short Date to dd.mm.yyyy
if that's the format you want. Otherwise it inherits the control panel
setting.

 

[Carl_and_Earl]

Thanks John, but it didn't work. I did what you told me, but to change the
field to 01.01.2009 I have to type first 01/01/2009 otherwise it wouldn't let
me to enter the date and I want to input just 1.1.2009 when I tipe to
simplify it.

 

[John W. Vinson]

Thanks John, but it didn't work. I did what you told me, but to change the
field to 01.01.2009 I have to type first 01/01/2009 otherwise it wouldn't let
me to enter the date and I want to input just 1.1.2009 when I tipe to
simplify it.

Hrm. Ok, you're right - it's trying to enter the date as a fractional number!
Wierd.

If your user simply cannot move over one key on the keyboard and type /
instead of . I suspect you'll need to use an unbound textbox and parse the
number into a recognizable date, or change the Control Panel regional short
date format. I've tried a couple of things that didn't work (setting an input
mask frex) and don't have any bright ideas!

 

[Carl_and_Earl]

Thanks for your help anyway, it was much appreciated. Even I still didn't
figured it out, I learned, trying to solve this problem, many other things.

Thank you!

 

[James A. Fortune]

I want to make a field to change the date from 1.1.2009 to 01.01.2009 on lost
focus.

Thanks!

Maybe:

Private Sub txtX_LostFocus()
If IsDate(Replace(txtX.Value, ".", "/")) = False Then
MsgBox ("Invalid Date")
Exit Sub
End If
If Not IsNull(txtX.Value) Then txtX.Value _
= Replace(Format(Replace(txtX.Value, ".", "/"), _
"mm/dd/yyyy"), "/", ".")
End Sub

Note: txtX's Format property should be blank.

James A. Fortune
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[James A. Fortune]

Maybe:

Private Sub txtX_LostFocus()
If IsDate(Replace(txtX.Value, ".", "/")) = False Then
MsgBox ("Invalid Date")
Exit Sub
End If
If Not IsNull(txtX.Value) Then txtX.Value _
= Replace(Format(Replace(txtX.Value, ".", "/"), _
"mm/dd/yyyy"), "/", ".")
End Sub

Note: txtX's Format property should be blank.

James A. Fortune
(e-mail address removed)

This might be better:

Private Sub txtX_LostFocus()
If Not IsNull(txtX.Value) Then
If IsDate(Replace(txtX.Value, ".", "/")) = False Then
MsgBox ("Invalid Date")
Exit Sub
End If
txtX.Value = Replace(Format(Replace(txtX.Value, ".", "/"), _
"mm/dd/yyyy"), "/", ".")
End If
End Sub

James A. Fortune
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Carl_and_Earl]

Hah! You got this right! I can't belive it. Works like a charm. Al I had to
do was to replace txtX with the name of my textbox.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

 

[John W. Vinson]

This might be better:

Private Sub txtX_LostFocus()
If Not IsNull(txtX.Value) Then
If IsDate(Replace(txtX.Value, ".", "/")) = False Then
MsgBox ("Invalid Date")
Exit Sub
End If
txtX.Value = Replace(Format(Replace(txtX.Value, ".", "/"), _
"mm/dd/yyyy"), "/", ".")
End If
End Sub

VERY clever, James... thank you! Filed for future reference (with
attribution). Didn't realize you could tweak the Value property in LostFocus
like that.

 

[James A. Fortune]

VERY clever, James... thank you! Filed for future reference (with
attribution). Didn't realize you could tweak the Value property in LostFocus
like that.

You're welcome. I'm glad to have been of help.

James A. Fortune
(e-mail address removed)

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