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Jul 23rd, 2020, 08:24 AM
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[RESOLVED] Excel VBA - Format date regardless Windows regional settings
Hi
I want to "decode" date properly regardless regional settings.
I want to concatenate day, month and year and be sure date will be properly calculated.
I figure it out that way:
Dim d1 As String
Dim d2 As String
d1 = #10/12/2020#
MsgBox Format(d1, "dd.mm.yyyy")
d2 = "#" & "10" & "/" & "12" & "/" & "2020" & "#"
MsgBox Format(d2, "dd.mm.yyyy")
Why concatenate in d2 is not working (i want to put days, months and years separately into format function)
d1 is calculated OK, but d2 showing #10/12/2020# and its not a date i can use.
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Jul 24th, 2020, 04:35 AM
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Re: Excel VBA - Format date regardless Windows regional settings
OK, i figured it out.
I used DateSerial function.
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Jul 24th, 2020, 04:47 AM
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Re: [RESOLVED] Excel VBA - Format date regardless Windows regional settings
try like
Code:
msgbox format(dateserial(2020, 12, 10), "dd.mm.yyyy") ' 10th december
i might have your month and day mixed up
date serial is unambiguous and returns a date value, not a string
d1 is a string converted from a date, but could be ambiguous
d2 is a string from a concatenated string, try d1 = "#10/12/2020#" and d1 = "10/12/2020", just to see the results
i do my best to test code works before i post it, but sometimes am unable to do so for some reason, and usually say so if this is the case.
Note code snippets posted are just that and do not include error handling that is required in real world applications, but avoid On Error Resume Next
dim all variables as required as often i have done so elsewhere in my code but only posted the relevant part
come back and mark your original post as resolved if your problem is fixed
pete
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Jul 24th, 2020, 02:28 PM
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Re: [RESOLVED] Excel VBA - Format date regardless Windows regional settings
Originally Posted by westconn1
try like
Code:
msgbox format(dateserial(2020, 12, 10), "dd.mm.yyyy") ' 10th december
i might have your month and day mixed up
date serial is unambiguous and returns a date value, not a string
d1 is a string converted from a date, but could be ambiguous
d2 is a string from a concatenated string, try d1 = "#10/12/2020#" and d1 = "10/12/2020", just to see the results
I don't think d1 may be ambiguous.
d1 always means "12 october", same as dateserial(2020, 12, 10)
It's easy to get date from format(dataserial(right(A2,4), left(A3,2)...etc.
But i dont know how to concatenate #10/12/2020#, because d1 works, but d2 which is formally #10/12/2020# too, doesn't work.
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Jul 24th, 2020, 04:19 PM
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Re: [RESOLVED] Excel VBA - Format date regardless Windows regional settings
you could try
Code:
d2 = CDate("10" & "/" & "12" & "/" & "2020")
but it may be affected by regional settings, dateserial wold be better
i do my best to test code works before i post it, but sometimes am unable to do so for some reason, and usually say so if this is the case.
Note code snippets posted are just that and do not include error handling that is required in real world applications, but avoid On Error Resume Next
dim all variables as required as often i have done so elsewhere in my code but only posted the relevant part
come back and mark your original post as resolved if your problem is fixed
pete
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