Hi Experts,
I need to read a date from .mdb file and then find its weekday:
<%
myDate = rs.fields("DateField")
myWeekday = Weekday(myDate)
%>
My problems are:
1. The value of myDate is a string?
2. If I don't know the date format in my .mdb file, how to know dd and mm?
3. In Weekday function, what is the correct date format, dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy?
In VB there is no such problem because we can declare myDate as Date.......
Thank you in advance.
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Otherwise the ugly hack would be to do something like:
myDate = rs.fields("DateField")
myDate = Day(myDate) & "/" & Month(myDate) & "/" & Year(myDate) (which would actually return mm/dd/yyy to you because the month and day are transposed)
In that order because access is ass-backwards and puts the day first. :-P
- aba
When using ASP to query Access the date format must be in MM/DD/YYYY format, any other format will give you an error or incorrect results. It doesn't matter what format you have dates displayed in Access when viewing the data directly the above format is the only format that Access interprets dates. The best way to deal with dates and Db's is use yyyy/mm/dd format as this is compatible with all db's
addind the correct lcid seems to help:
<%
session.lcid=1033
myDate="7/6/2004"
Response.Write "day: " & day(myDate) &"<br>"
Response.Write "month: " & Month(myDate)&"<br>"
Response.Write "Year: " & year(myDate)&"<br>"
%>
Locale ID (LCID) Description
1033 General Unicode (mm/dd/yyyy)
1043 Dutch (dd/mm/yyyy)
Hope this helps
sorry, forgot to answer your questions... :-)
1. The value of myDate is a string?
With to code above, it doesn't matter, just choose the correct Lcid
2. If I don't know the date format in my .mdb file, how to know dd and mm?
Just store the datevar filled with now() in your db.
3. In Weekday function, what is the correct date format, dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy?
The weekday function is not depending on a format.
Each date in in fact an unique number, Weekday() is calculating with that number.
So if, you know your dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy settings and take the apporiat Lcid, the weekday will be showed correctly
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by: abatardiPosted on 2004-07-21 at 01:48:00ID: 11600542
I believe default in access is dd/mm/yyyy and ASP and Weekday function are looking for mm/dd/yyyy
when you do the query in access you should be able to format the date something like this using the format function:
Format (#17/04/2004#, "mm/dd/yyyy")
Then you should be able to use any asp date function even tho your variable is a regular string type.
- aba