Re: Another date exercise

tedd wrote:

Hi gang: Here's another exercise to consider. This is a date entry problem where the user can enter a date in various forms, but the return will be in a consistent format. For example, a user might enter a date in the form of: August 5, 2009 Aug 05 2009 Aug 5, 9 08/05/09 8-5-9 8 05 2009 8,5,9 Or any combination thereof. However, the resultant date will be standardized to: Aug 5, 2009. Extra points for solving this for Euro as well as US date formats (i.e., 5 Aug, 2009 vs Aug 5, 2009). And, extra extra points for accommodating month brevity, such as "A" for August and "Mar" for March and so on.

But the real problem here is 05/08/09 is still August 5 2009 ..... So teaching customers to use 2009.08.05 removes the hassle of needing to know where your target site is based! But as has been said, the real solution is a date picker. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php