Keith, At 21:51 2002-02-28, you wrote: >That has certain advantages, but it's a pain for the user if it's in >a application where you have to enter a lot of dates or fill out a >form repeatedly. For that sort of data entry, typing digits is far >preferable to selecting from a dropdown list.
Agreed - but in that case, for an international application, you'd have to let the user select their preferred date format first! Do you know what 2/3/2002 is? Tomorrow or nearly a month ago? I have absolutely no idea... :) The main thing I tried to get across is that handling date input is nearly always dependent on the type of application and the types of dates needed. There is no general solution for "dates". (And dates get *really* interesting when you're dealing with partially unknown data (just a year, or only year and month) or historical data (is this date in 1012 a valid date?)...) >[Filter fodder: SQL, query] -- Marjolein Katsma HomeSite Help - http://hshelp.com/ - Extensions, Tips and Tools The Bookstore - http://books.hshelp.com/ - Books for webmasters and webrookies --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
