Richard White wrote:
> i was under the impression that if i set a locale as English UK and then used 
> the follwing code:
> 
> lsdateformat("07/24/1978","dd/mm/yyyy") that it would convert this date into 
> 24/07/1978 
> but i am getting an error '07/24/1978 is an invalid date format' but if i use 
> dateformat instead of lsdateformat then it converts it fine
> 
> it seems to me that lsdateformat function takes an english uk formated date 
> (dd/mm/yyyy)

Taking some string input and converting that to a date object is what 
ParseDateTime() and LSParseDateTime() are for. All other date and time 
functions should not be fed string input but date objects. (And if you 
have to use string input, use the yyyy-mm-dd format.)

Jochem

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