[RESOLVED] Date format trouble

[Tinbeard]

I'm writing an application that stores some user data, one of the items is an expiry date entered into a text box in the UK format (dd/mm/yy).

Before I store this in the Access DB I'm trying to convert it to a date (as it's a string when it's entered).

If I enter the date 22/10/05 and then call CDATE(txtExpiryDate.Text) I get the following error.

Cast from string "22/10/04" to type 'Date' is not valid

I'm assuming it's because it's expecting the US format, the question is how do I convert a string in the UK format to a date I can store in Access ?

I want it as a date because later in the application I want to compare it against todays date to check whats expired.

Hope this makes sense.

[Zakary]

You may use a DateTimePicker control to avoid having to convert a date that you don't know the format.

But if you really have to convert a string to a date, you may use the New Date constructor

Dim MyDate As Date = New Date(2005, 9, 22)

Or try with the Parse method of a DateTime dataType

Dim MyDate As Date = Date.Parse(MyDateString)

[campster]

This is a hack but it works:

Dim myDate as date
 
myDate = SwapDayMonth("20/10/04")
 
Private Function SwapDayMonth(ByVal d as String) as Date
    Dim fSlash, lSlash, diff as Integer
    Dim tMonth, tDay, tYear As String
 
    fSlash = d.IndexOf("/")
    lSlash = d.LastINdexOf("/")
    diff = lSlash - fSlash
 
    tDay = d.Substring(0, fSlash)
    tMonth = d.Substring(lSlash - diff +1, diff-1)
    tyear = d.Substring(lSlash +1,2)
 
    Return Convert.ToDate(tMonth & "/" & tDay & "/" &tyear)
End Function

[Tinbeard]

Thanks for the help, I'm getting the following error with your code Campster

'ToDate' is not a member of 'System.Convert'

any ideas ?

[Tinbeard]

I've worked around it by passing a converted string back and storing it in the database, now when i compare against todays date it works fine.
Thanks again for your help