Sam Tregar wrote:
Both, I suppose. I was looking for an 80% solution to get the ball rolling by allowing the user to pick from a list of commonly used date formats. In most cases the data won't be specially prepared for my application, so I'll have to be ready for anything.
Have a look at the cell formats for dates available in Excel or OOo .. that's probably a fair list of the most common human-dates.
Cheers! Rick Measham