Re: dateTime Manupulations

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From: Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] (hirf-spam-me-here_at_gmx.at)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:38:33 +0200

"Cor Ligthert" <notmyfirstname@planet.nl> schrieb:
> In none of the threads I have read explicitly that there was needed a
> datetime conversion between strings, however it was a datetime conversion
> between a datetime value and a string value.

In /both/ threads Jay is referring two the question was about /parsing/ a
date that is represented as a string. This is a common scenario when dates
are stored in a specific format in a text file, for example. The questions
was not about a conversion between a 'Date' and a 'Date', this would not
make much sense.

> So show me first where that culture conversion is needed before you start
> to tell that for conversion between a string and a date a CDate is not the
> best choise.

'CDate' is definitely not the best choice when parsing dates represented as
strings in a specific format. All I can do is stating again what I already
said: I don't know if you are ignorant or just don't understand it. It
seems that you ignore every explanation, so further discussion is rather
useless. 

-- 
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

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