Date formatting confusion

[Burrick]

I am working on fixing an ASP.NET app someone else wrote.

I have access to the actual page through terminal server, and have downloaded the source.

Here is the oddity.

  Dim dt as date

  dt = today.month & "/" & today.day & "/" & today.year

The code above produces an error when I run it on my workstation.
Windows XP Service Pack 2. It also produces an error on my laptop, same operating system.

This DOES NOT produce an error on the server that the original code still runs on. Windows 2000 Server.

This DOES NOT produce an error on my workstation if it is run with VB.NET.

for it to work properly in my asp page the code needs to be as follows.

  dt = today.day & "/" & today.month & "/" & today.year

I find this bewildering. My short date setting is M/d/yy so that can't be the issue. Why is ASP.NET behaving differently from my VB.NET on my own workstation, and again differently from the ASP.NET on the target server??

I can write a workaround that tries both methods, but it doesn't seem logiical to have to do that.

Any ideas?

[jhermiz]

Originally posted by Burrick
I am working on fixing an ASP.NET app someone else wrote.

I have access to the actual page through terminal server, and have downloaded the source.

Here is the oddity.

  Dim dt as date

  dt = today.month & "/" & today.day & "/" & today.year

The code above produces an error when I run it on my workstation.
Windows XP Service Pack 2. It also produces an error on my laptop, same operating system.

This DOES NOT produce an error on the server that the original code still runs on. Windows 2000 Server.

This DOES NOT produce an error on my workstation if it is run with VB.NET.

for it to work properly in my asp page the code needs to be as follows.

  dt = today.day & "/" & today.month & "/" & today.year

I find this bewildering. My short date setting is M/d/yy so that can't be the issue. Why is ASP.NET behaving differently from my VB.NET on my own workstation, and again differently from the ASP.NET on the target server??

I can write a workaround that tries both methods, but it doesn't seem logiical to have to do that.

Any ideas?

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