On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > Well it appears that ADO or VBA or the combination of these speak > American despite what any regional settings on the machine might be. > Formatting with dd/mm/yyyy either as part of the automation or manually > afterwards makes no difference. > > What I've had to do is make the column Text-type, let them populate and > then post-process each cell value to switch month and day. Kludgy, but > there we are. ---------------------
Why not open the sheet in VFP and set your date's language after the fact? Or are you making calculations in the download fill portion of the process based on the date? -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Web and Windows Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

