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Changing an unput mask
Reen 12/29/2008 7:02:02 PM
I want to change the way a date is entered in my database from MM/DD/YYYY to
MM/YY, how am I supposed to do that?
Re: Changing an unput mask
John W. Vinson <jvinson[ at ]STOP_SPAM.WysardOfInfo.com> 12/29/2008 7:26:58 PM
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:02:02 -0800, Reen <Reen1176[ at ]hotmail.com(donotspam)>
wrote:

[Quoted Text]
>I want to change the way a date is entered in my database from MM/DD/YYYY to
>MM/YY, how am I supposed to do that?

A Date/TIme field is always a precise point in time. You can *display* a date
to show only the month and day, but it's still stored as a Double Float count
of days and fractions of a day since an arbitrary start point.

--

John W. Vinson [MVP]
Re: Changing an unput mask
"Jeff Boyce" <nonsense[ at ]nonsense.com> 12/29/2008 8:53:33 PM
As John points out, you can store your date, but choose to format the
display (in a form, in a report) however you'd like, including "MM/YY".

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP


"Reen" <Reen1176[ at ]hotmail.com(donotspam)> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text]
>I want to change the way a date is entered in my database from MM/DD/YYYY
>to
> MM/YY, how am I supposed to do that?


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