Re: vb6 question

Well it's not easy, but may be I can write several functions and make a
whole bunch of replacements in the app.

This is my bet: DateSerial (a Vb6 function)

What do you think?

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Thanks,

Rick.

"For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
H. L. Mencken"


"dpb" wrote:

christery@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 2 Apr, 18:38, dpb <n...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Rick wrote:
Is there any way to make the following date functions:
Format
CDATE
DateAdd
DatePart
Month
Day
...etc...
system date independent?
...

In short, no, I don't believe there's any possibility to change the VB
runtime behavior to make it insensitive to system locale. Your best bet
is to replace the intrinsics w/ your own library functions which are
"app-aware" of local locale.

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Welll, Excel for example is used to this... why not do like excel?
seconds(?) since 1900-01-01 or something, we use 1980-01-01 for our
origin of time in a DB to get rid of that summertime problem, (got
otherones instead but...)
....

Decent answer to the wrong question I think...that doesn't handle (at
least that I see) the question of interpretation in the VB functions of
a text-formatted date in mm/dd/yy order vis a vis dd/mm/yy order--VB
will still interpret it on the basis of the global locale setting.

What Rick wants/needs is a way to control that behavior for a single app
independent of the system setting and there's no facility in VB to
handle it.

Which, btw, Rick, I agree you need to attach a data item to your app in
some form that is the indicator flag. Not knowing more, I hesitate to
recommend a particular implementation (and you're far more clever/expert
in the environment than I, anyway :) )...

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