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Re: Check how date is entered

From GS <gs@v.invalid>
Newsgroups microsoft.public.excel.programming
Subject Re: Check how date is entered
Date 2018-05-07 03:14 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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> On 5/6/2018 8:03 PM, GS wrote:
>>> On 5/6/2018 7:37 PM, GS wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> So docs done on pre-Vista systems would still show correct dates when 
>>>> opened in the later OSs because regardless of how the system format 
>>>> displays, the DateSerial dictates the actual date value!
>>>
>>> That's ok for stuff already _in_ MS product; what about the question of 
>>> importing data from external systems that may have different encoding 
>>> between them?  Looks like that's broken to me...
>> 
>> Hmm.., I guess you're talking about dbase date formats and AFAIK these also 
>> use DateSerial; - but then that only applies to MS-based or Windows-based 
>> dbases. I haven't run into any issues using generic dbases like SQLite, 
>> though, but then never did the XP/Vista+ testing thing with that. I do know 
>> the dates are correct in my stuff because I set the format to always use 
>> the 3-char month abreviation. (Suggests date values univerally use 
>> DateSerials to be cross-OS compatible!)
>
> No, the issue of text from two disparate systems; one encoded as mm/dd/yyyy 
> and the other dd/mm/yyyy.  AFAICT, there's no way other than to have to 
> recode to match the system default to get the one not matching to be 
> interpreted correctly.  That's just rude...

Actually, your example isn't textual dates; - they're numeric! This is where 
the problem lies. A2 in my exercise is an example of textual date format; - it 
doesn't matter what the system format is because that format will ALWAYS 
display correctly.

-- 
Garry

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Check how date is entered jan120253@gmail.com - 2018-05-04 00:31 -0700
  Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-04 07:46 -0500
    Re: Check how date is entered "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2018-05-04 15:55 +0000
      Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-04 12:43 -0500
        Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-04 17:37 -0400
          Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-04 18:49 -0500
            Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-04 21:42 -0400
              Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-04 23:46 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-05 04:21 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-05 07:21 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-05 09:50 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-05 09:05 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-05 10:33 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-05 10:57 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-05 20:51 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-05 11:32 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-05 21:19 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-06 07:46 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-06 09:37 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-06 20:37 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-06 19:53 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-06 21:03 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 00:06 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-07 03:14 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 07:45 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-07 13:06 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 13:53 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered malone <malone@nospam.net.nz> - 2018-05-08 08:19 +1200
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 15:35 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-07 17:38 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 17:26 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 00:19 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 01:31 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 07:45 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 09:45 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 14:34 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 14:09 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 17:06 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 13:48 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 15:02 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 14:59 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 17:04 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 18:53 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 21:12 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 23:51 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-09 07:20 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-09 11:32 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-09 11:35 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-09 15:03 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-09 15:18 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-07 13:34 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 13:44 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-07 17:40 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 17:50 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 00:02 -0400
  Re: Check how date is entered jan120253@gmail.com - 2018-05-07 01:45 -0700
    Re: Check how date is entered jan120253@gmail.com - 2018-05-07 01:52 -0700
      Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 08:16 -0500
        Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-07 13:10 -0400
  Re: Check how date is entered Ramon-México <cesaramon@gmail.com> - 2018-05-07 22:03 -0700

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