Mar 20, 2008 · The other NUMERIC forms are mm-dd-yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy. The CONVERSION of either of these can be problimatic. It is best to MAP the year, month and day values into the DateSerial function using the MID function. Date formats that contain TEXT have special challenges. Skip, Have you heard that the roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was...

Dec 11, 2001 · Using VBScript, you can simply do a "strMyDate = CStr(theDateVariable)" to retrieve the string value / representation of "theDateVariable" into "strMyDate". You could also do a CStr() on the "FormatDateTime(theDateVariable)" function to change the actual format of the …

Mar 21, 2016 · Excel will do all type of guessing and formatting and should not be used for testing. Now if the final target of an extract is Excel you may need to extract data in a particular way and you will probably also need to run a Excel vba macro over the data once its loaded onto excel to format it according to the requirements. Not the case here I think.

Jan 15, 2010 · I need to build a calculator similar to what insurance companies use. What I need to be able to do is, if the current date is 6 months or less from your last birthday, to display that age and date. If current date is 6 months + 1 day (or …

Oct 31, 2007 · The root of the problem is the way various countries specify their dates. In the US, it is month/day/year. In the UK it is day/month/year. There is a lot of mistaken people out there, even many MVP's. For example, take a look at this:

Mar 11, 2016 · Hello, I am using version db2 9.1 I need to convert numeric field that holds dates defined as DECIMAL (8,0) in YYYYMMDD format. I would like to convert it to MM/dd/YYYY.I would perferred to remove leading zeros in the month and day part. for example 7/3/2015 not 07/03/2015. any tips will be...

Mar 25, 2004 · A cell can easily be formatted as a date with a different language. Typically, one would format cell and select an entry that is listed in the "locale (location):" dropdown field. One could also do the same through using a CUSTOM format and select a value like: [$-F800]dd mmmm yyyy which would typically show the date in French.

Feb 2, 2004 · The function makes the string into a date, allowing the month function to retreive the month from the date. like this. Month(DateValue(Left([Mon],3) & "-01-2005&quot) Regarding the list box on your form, assume that the form is called MyForm, and the listbox is called MonthBox. So it would be like this: =Month(DateValue(Left(Forms!Myform ...

Sep 5, 2008 · The date is imported into a table and then formatted. From the FAQ file: FAQ68-5827: Why do Dates and Times seem to be so much trouble? It says the date will be converted in Excel to a number representing the days from 1-1-1900 with 1 being 1-1-1900. The date comes in as a 1 but is converting to 12-31-1899. I use SQL to convert it:

Oct 10, 2011 · How can I convert Null or empty datetime value to default datetime value ("1900-01-01") using SSIS derived column transformation in SSIS? I need to check both empty or Null date values. Thanks