>>>Paul Mrozowski (RCS Solutions) has posted a nice non-ActiveX calendar control that you can use as a datepicker.
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>>Attached is my implementation of it. Switches to specify above/below/left-justify/right-justify. Month/Century/Decade/Year spinners + current-month hotspot for quick navigation. Picker-only -- no direct/keyed-in date entry allowed.
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>nosy me clicked after reading about as far as "implementation".
>Thereafter wondering if M was for month or millenium ;-)
>Sequencing CDYM would have been more descriptive for me,

My ordering of the spinners corresponds to the format of the immediately adjacent label that is being changed, i.e.:
"January 2013" = MCDY. Made more sense to me than "significance" order (CDYM) -- especially since the spinners
are not all grouped together. One could certainly rearrange things, however -- and, for that matter, squeeze in a fifth
spinner to handle Millennium (if you really need it).

>Having arrows over each digit and month would also be more descriptive to my mind,

Certainly very workable -- probably with buttons, instead of spinners, due to space.

>while adding the millenium silently for those of us often needing dates more than a dozen centuries away.

Not a potentially big customer demographic for me! (And spinners spin fast enough for Centuries to suffice, anyway.)

>IAC looks easy enough to grok - but I know I sometimes view things differently than most people

My attitude is: Anyone who thinks the "M" in my English app refers to Millennium
instead of Month, and still can't figure it out after exactly one click, is probably too stupid to use my app! :-)