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Hi,
I am having trouble when using dates in a report because they do not print out in the required format. In the analysis I specified a date with entry mask DD/MM/YYYY and returned value as DDMMYYYY. For example, I entered 30th September 2005 as 30/09/2005 and it shows that way in the data entry form. When it prints out in a report it prints as 05/20/3009. I have tried various DateToString and StringToDate conversions but to no avail. I did get it working using the following code by setting global variables
Day is int
Month is int
Year is int
NewDate is string
and then using
Day=RequestDate
Month=RequestDate
Year=RequestDate
and constructing a date from this using -
NewDate=NumToString(Day,"02d")+NumToString(Month,"02d")+NumToString(Year,"4d")
DateRequired=NewDate
Although it worked it seems a difficult way to

Hi Milton,
though dates can be shown in different ways (display/input mask) the way they have to be stored is only one: YYYYMMDD This is the format WinDev is using dates internally - as strings. All file items representing dates should be in the format YYYYMMDD as well! This is logical, because this format is the only way that returns a sorted date field. So, though there is the possibility to have another returned format, always choose YYYYMMDD !
The input / display mask is a different story. WinDev offers quite a number of options of how to display / input dates. You can choose the appropriate one or, if your program is for a number of countries, you can even define a different input / display mask for each language and if that's not enough, the mask could be changed even programmatically.
Keeping that in mind, dates will always display nicely without any string-fiddling!
Kind regards,
Guenter