>Hi all,
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>What is the best way to store/manipulate dates with VB/Access applications so that regional settings won't interfere.
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>Should I store date values as character and retrieve with date literals and format function or is there another alternative?
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>Also ... is it the regional settings that reverts a date from october 12, 2000 to december 10, 2000?

Always remember that VB internally stores the date as mm/dd/yy (the US format).

You should always work with this format in mind (cdate, dateadd, datediff, ...).

When you need to display or when users need to input dates, always use a mask that has 4 digits for the year part (yyyy/mm/dd). This way, you should avoid all problems related to dates.

For input, you should also consider using the DateTimePicker control of VB6.