Strange Date Behaviour

Thomas Hidderley thomas.hidderley at sympatico.ca
Mon Apr 21 17:04:20 PDT 2008


On 21-Apr-08, at 6:48 PM, Chris Watts wrote:



> I can't for the life of me remember how I fixed it, but I would start
> by trashing the prefs for International and Date prefpanes.


cw


I can't find any pref plist for either Date or International. I did  
find a Date pref in classic which made no difference when trashed.

th


On Apr 21, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Thomas Hidderley wrote:

>> I have several databases with date fields. The format in all of them
>> is "MM/DD/YY". The fields have accepted inputs for many years until a
>> few days ago. I tried running an action in an invoice database and
>> received the message "illegal date".
>> When I try to input a date in the database in the above format I
>> receive the message "Month must be from 1 to 12. Click Re-edit to re-
>> edit." So now when I enter the date with DD first followed by MM it
>> not only accepts it but re-formats it to the original "MM/DD/YY" .
>> However until I change the date format to DD/MM/YY in the action
>> procedure I still receive the "Illegal Date" message.
>> Does anyone have a clue as to what stupid thing I may have done to
>> cause this? More importantly how do I correct it? Thanks
>>




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