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    #1

    how to modify date format?

    The help files say that various date formats such as mm/dd/yy and dd/mm/yy are available, without saying where to go to do this. Being in Australia, it's the dd/mm/yy format I want, but I can't find where this can be done.
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    RE: how to modify date format?

    you can set the date format on the form where it is located. right click on the date field and select "format"

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      #3
      RE: how to modify date format?

      Glenn,

      Click on the field while in design mode and click again on the right part of the field, the part that contains the data. Then right click on it and bring up the Properties.

      Select the Format tab and then Format Style. Walla!!

      kenn
      TYVM :) kenn

      Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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        #4
        RE: how to modify date format?

        That brings up a list of "All Uppercase", "All Lowercase", "First letter upper, rest lower", etc., but it doesn't seem to have anything about date formats. (I need something even more unusual, 25/MAR/02).

        Any ideas?

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          #5
          RE: how to modify date format?

          If you get the chices you've indicated, Alpha thinks your field is character, not date. Create a calculated field which picks apart your date string and reassembles it in the order you desire.

          Supposing you had "12/31/01" as your string (dstring), you could use:

          substr(dstring,4,3) + substr(dstring,1,2)+substr(dstring,6,3)

          to do the transformation.
          There can be only one.

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            #6
            RE: how to modify date format?

            Make that choices, not chices.
            There can be only one.

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              #7
              RE: how to modify date format?

              D'oh!

              Of course. Thanks.

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                #8
                RE: how to modify date format?

                Stan,

                Sorry to return, after all this time, to this problem. I have no problem setting the display of dates to the format I want (11-Apr-02, in this case). This seemed to solve my problem and I went away for Easter in a relatively care-free frame of mind. I find though, that although this displays dates perfectly, I have to input dates on a form in the format 11_04_2002. When I lose the focus of that field the date changes to 11-Apr-02. I assumed that anyone would have wanted dates to appear consistently in the same format throughout an application, and that there would be a global setting, but even if each date field has to be set separately, it seems odd that two formats can appear in the same field at (almost) the same time. How do I overcome this problem.

                Thanks for your help. (As you may realise I'm very new to A5 and haven't yet surmounted the learning curve!)

                Martin.

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