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January 5th, 2005, 05:39 PM
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Date Input Mask
I want to enter a date like 12/04. The imput mask gives me everything but
this. How do I set the Input for just a two digit month/year? Thanks! 
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January 5th, 2005, 10:03 PM
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:39:13 -0800, Sam
wrote: I want to enter a date like 12/04. The imput mask gives me everything but this. How do I set the Input for just a two digit month/year? Thanks! You don't. An Access Date/Time value is actually stored as a double float number, a count of days and fractions of a day (times) since midnight December 30, 1899. As such, any date/time value must correspond to a precise instant of time. December 2004 was not an instant (it was a *long* time for me... g) I'd suggest either using two Integer fields, not named Month or Year (reserved words) but something like ExpMo and ExpYr, and concatenate them for display; or use a Text field. John W. Vinson[MVP]
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January 6th, 2005, 09:01 PM
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I appreciate your reply, although it was quite confusing. I entered an input
mask of 99/99 and received exactly what I wanted. Thanks! "John Vinson" wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:39:13 -0800, Sam wrote: I want to enter a date like 12/04. The imput mask gives me everything but this. How do I set the Input for just a two digit month/year? Thanks! You don't. An Access Date/Time value is actually stored as a double float number, a count of days and fractions of a day (times) since midnight December 30, 1899. As such, any date/time value must correspond to a precise instant of time. December 2004 was not an instant (it was a *long* time for me... g) I'd suggest either using two Integer fields, not named Month or Year (reserved words) but something like ExpMo and ExpYr, and concatenate them for display; or use a Text field. John W. Vinson[MVP]
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January 7th, 2005, 05:39 PM
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=?Utf-8?B?U2Ft?= wrote in news
 A38DB75-: I entered an input mask of 99/99 and received exactly what I wanted. You would be well advised to re-read John's reply. An input mask like this will let you enter a value of "12/04" but be advised that this will be stored as April 12th, 2005 -- which may or may not be what you want! All the best Tim F
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