Posted by rdraider on 08/24/07 22:01

Unfortunately I have no control over the format of the data in SQL nor the
application. I am however expected to please the users :-/
Time for a new job. I've always wanted to be a pilot...

Thanks for all the help.

RD

"Piero 'Giops' Giorgi" <giorgi.piero@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Aug 23, 5:13 pm, "rdraider" <rdrai...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Conversion necessary because the &%#%$&)# user wants to see mm/dd/yyyy
>
> What the user wants and what the Db needs are two different things.
> You must store the date as a standard and THEN, formatting the output,
> you can write whatever you want.
>
> But NOT in the DB
>
> P
>

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