How should dates be implemented so they work with other language and country formats ?  

well,If you use ie. MM/DD/YY format dates in a program, you will get
either a runtime-error (ie. month>12) or the wrong date (ie. March
12 instead of December 3) when your program is used in Europe. And
vice versa, of course. Even Microsoft's own example programs (like
the MAPI sample) make this stupid mistake and fail miserably. Use
the Format command to make sure you get the date you want. For
example:

strTodaysDate = Format[$](Now, "Short Date")

As a side note, Microsoft has taken much heat on the newsgroup for
VB's bad support for internationalization! Just try to make a date
literal in source code that works everywhere as a little exercise.
Answer elsewhere in this document. No prizes :-)
source:www.faqs.org/faqs/ visual-basic-faq/windows/

Answered by Debashis at 10:49 AM on September 19, 2008

If you use e.g.MM/DD/YY format dates in a program, you will get either a runtime-error(e.g.month>12)or the wrong date (e.g.March 12 instead of December 3) when your program isused in Europe. And vice versa, of course. Even Microsoft's own example programs (like the MAPI sample in VB3) make this stupid mistake and fail miserably.Use the format command to make sure you get the date you want. For example


strTodaysDate = Format[$](Now,"Short Date")

As a side note, Microsoft has taken much heat on the newsgroup for VB's bad support for internationalization! Just try to make a date literal in source code that works everywhere as little exercise. Answer elsewhere in this document.)

Answered by Hem@nt .... at 2:06 PM on September 18, 2008

Well, In VB, Lets say you have a textbox called Text1 and a command button called Command1. Then, if you put tthis in your command buttons click event, it'll display the date in the textbox when you click on it.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Text1.Text = Format(Date, "dd/mm/yyyy")
End Sub

If you use e.g.MM/DD/YY format dates in a program, you will get either a runtime-error(e.g.month>12)or the wrong date (e.g.March 12 instead of December 3) when your program isused in Europe. And vice versa, of course. Even Microsoft's own example programs (like the MAPI sample in VB3) make this stupid mistake and fail miserably.Use the format command to make sure you get the date you want. For example

strTodaysDate = Format[$](Now,"Short Date")

As a side note, Microsoft has taken much heat on the newsgroup for VB's bad support for internationalization! Just try to make a date literal in source code that works everywhere as little exercise. Answer elsewhere in this document.)

For more details , Please visit the source site :

http://www.mckisicsoftware.com /Resources/visual_basic_faqs.htm#q_ 7

Answered by Alok Gupta at 10:47 AM on September 18, 2008

If you use e.g.MM/DD/YY format dates in a program, you will get either a runtime-error(e.g.month>12)or the wrong date (e.g.March 12 instead of December 3) when your program isused in Europe. And vice versa, of course.

Even Microsoft's own example programs (like the MAPI sample in VB3) make this stupid mistake and fail miserably.Use the format command to make sure you get the date you want. For example

strTodaysDate = Format[$](Now,"Short Date")

As a side note, Microsoft has taken much heat on the newsgroup for VB's bad support for internationalization! Just try to make a date literal in source code that works everywhere as little exercise. Answer elsewhere in this document.)

For more visit :

http://www.mckisicsoftwar e.com/Resources/visual_basic_f aqs.htm#q_9

Answered by Ashish Yadav at 9:13 AM on September 18, 2008

hi,friend
If you use e.g.MM/DD/YY format dates in a program, you will get either a runtime-error(e.g.month>12)or the wrong date (e.g.March 12 instead of December 3) when your program isused in Europe. And vice versa, of course. Even Microsoft's own example programs (like the MAPI sample in VB3) make this stupid mistake and fail miserably.Use the format command to make sure you get the date you want. For example
strTodaysDate = Format[$](Now,"Short Date")
As a side note, Microsoft has taken much heat on the newsgroup for VB's bad support for internationalization! Just try to make a date literal in source code that works everywhere as little exercise. Answer elsewhere in this document.)

Answered by Nz at 2:50 AM on September 18, 2008