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Re: Check how date is entered

From dpb <none@none.net>
Newsgroups microsoft.public.excel.programming
Subject Re: Check how date is entered
Date 2018-05-07 13:53 -0500
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On 5/7/2018 12:06 PM, GS wrote:
...

> If the source data is indeed StringText then you're at the mercy of 
> Excel interpreting as per system date format and the resulting 
> ambiguity. Using textual date formats ("May 05, 2018") will ALWAYS 
> display correctly because Excel will indeed treat them as text. (ergo 
> not useable in formulas by direct ref to the cell)
...

Yes, but sometimes with foreign systems one doesn't have the ability to 
change the output form...sad, but ime, more often than one would think, 
still all too true for specialty systems from a hardware vendor or the 
like that are just simple prepackaged demos of how to use the system but 
also ime, probably 70-80% of the clients would never have written a 
better tool for their purpose but instead just make do with the toy 
sample from the vendor and live with the warts.

Been burnt too many times.... :(

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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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