>>>Just made me wonder, is there a format code for a Transform function which would give a date string in a strict date format?
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>>>I'm thinking of something shorthand for
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>>>set date ymd
>>>set cent on
>>>cStrictDateExpr="{^"+transform(date(), "@R 9999-99-99")+"}"
>>>set cent &oldCent
>>>set date &oldDate
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>>Curious- why would you need this? If you have a date value already created in a variable, then it is not ambigous. Only constants are. The strict date format is not meant for user display...
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>Settings table, .ini files and such, where data of various types should be represented as strings, and later converted from strings to real data, using Eval() - this should make them unambiguous. Namely, I have a table where I store some local config values, and it takes the dates when were some maintenance chores last done.

Still unclear... why wouldn't you store the date in a date field?

In the registry or ini files, I can see maybe, because he date would be stored in a string.