I have a textbox for date display which shows the date in this format: 17/04/2012 but I would like to format it to shows up like 'April 17, 2012'. I tried this code
UserForm1.txtDate = Format(Long Date)
which I am getting syntax error from compiler.Can you please let me know how I can do it?
Thanks
there have been couple of posts on this. Culprit seems to be your system date format. Use of short, medium, long formats will change the result when the system settings change.
In US systems mainly it's done as, e.g. Format$(yourdate, “dd/mm/yyyy”)
Where as European systems, e.g. Format$(yourdate, “short date”)
If we look at explicitly defining your format, you are formulating your regional settings!
Good e.g. short date won’t always be mm/dd/yyyy but could be dd/mm/yyyy. That’s the key advantage over actually specifying the format. Simply you can change how you want your date to look like instead of depending on the system (with or without your knowledge).
When we first encountered this, we had some making the VBA apps and sending it over to another in some other place where they have own localized system date format. Your phone rings... ;)
Short/Long Date: Display a date according to your system’s long date format.
Medium Date: Display a date using the medium date format appropriate for the language version of the host application.
In your case you could use,
UserForm1.txtDate.Value = Format$(Date,"mmmm dd, yyyy")
Or to be super-safe,
Dim dtDate as Date
dtDate = DateSerial(Year(Date), Month(Date), Day(Date))
UserForm1.txtDate.Value = Format$(dtDate, "mmmm dd, yyyy")
Hope that helps.
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I'm still new at UFT, but I've come across a problem that I haven't been able to figure out. I'm testing the web based portion of our application right now, and there's dates in all kinds of formats (dd/mm/yyyy, MMM d, YYYY, MMM yyyy)
The one I can't seem to convert to a date is (dddd, MMM d, yyyy).
I found this: ' In addition, a long date format is not recognized if it also contains the day-of-the-week string.' on the CDate function page for ADM help.
So I guess my question is, how do I handle this format? Do I remove the first word in the string? Is there another way to do this? - Thanks all for any help
I am making a VB.Net WinForm application. In which every week a setting will have to get reset and another setting(the date) will have to be updated.
For example:
The date is 7/17/18. On the 7/24/18, the setting will be reset and the date setting will be 7/24/18 so the function can go on. I know how to update and reset the setting. I just don't know how to say "a week from this date".
Thanks in advance for the help!
The easiest way would be to create an application level setting with user scope to store your last date, then you can compare the current date with the stored date to see if 7 days have past.
There are a few ways you could handle it, but to avoid culture issues, personally I have found that the easiest way is to store the date as a string in the international date format, so no matter what format the system uses for dates, the date will ALWAYS be in a recognisable format.
This method eliminates problems that could come up if the system's regional settings change:
My.Settings.DateSetting = Date.Today.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")
To see if a week has passed from your previous date:
If Date.Today >= Cdate(My.Settings.DateSetting).AddDays(7) Then
'Do your stuff here
' ...
'Add one week to the previous date and save the setting
My.Settings.DateSetting = CDate(My.Settings.DateSetting).AddDays(7).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")
My.Settings.Save()
End If
I know that I can write the following to format a number as a date with the appearance yyyy-mm-dd:
Range("A1").NumberFormat = "yyyy-mm-dd"
I know that I can also write:
Range("A1").NumberFormat = "m/d/yyyy"
and all kinds of things.
But is there a way I can set the number format to become a general short date and leave it up to the user's system to decide the exact appearance?
I'm looking for an expression like:
Range("A1").NumberFormat = "Short Date" '(<-This does not work)
It is a bit tricky. If you have a look at a cell's properties, format tab, category Date, you will see some formats beginning with an asterisk (*), those respond to the changes of the user locale. Try setting your cell to the first element, short date, then get its numberformat value in the immediate window with ?activecell.NumberFormat. You'll see that it is "m/d/yyyy", so your snippet does the job well. Just try changing your locale setting in control panel, the format of the cell will change accordingly.
Please try this
Format(Range("A1"), "Short Date")
It will return the system short date value.
I would like to know the difference between the two.
When I display as VIEW the result is - 12/27/2013 1:48:26 AM.
When I display as TEXT the result is- Friday December 27, 2013
Which is the better choice. I have been told that if date formats are different in pcs (for example one pc has dd,mm,yyyy and the othe pc has mm,dd,yyyy), the Datetimepicker may show error.
DateTimePicker.Value is the DateTime represented by the control
DateTimePicker.Text is HOW the control shows its date to the user according to the Format property
A DateTime value has no inherent format, it is just a numeric representation of a date. The way in which this numeric value is presented to the user is the Format of the date. This format is controlled by the regional settings of the local PC or the server. But it could be changed using various format strings.
DateTimePicker1.Value Will display your Current DateTime Value
DateTimePicker1.Text Will display your Format like Custom , Long, Short
Your default format is Long, that's why is showing DateTimePicker1.Text as Friday December 27, 2013
I have an issue with date format in my SSRS. I am saving date from DateTimePicker to database. From there I am taking display in my datagridview using following
dgv.items(0,2).value=Format(Cdate(dsSaver.tblInv.rows(0).items(0)),"dd-MMM-yyyy")
This displays it correctly (04-Nov-2011) but when I take date from the same database to my SSRS using
="Dated: " &Format(cdate(Fields!InvDate.Value),"dd-MMM-yyyy")
It displays it like 11-Apr-2011.
I have tested all winforms fare displaying it right but all SSRS are displaying it wrong.
Please advise.
A couple of things are going on here. The date is being saved appropriately but is being displayed incorrectly due to your formatting options. This line is quite problematic:
="Dated: " & Format(cdate(Fields!InvDate.Value), "dd-MMM-yyyy")
CDate takes a value, generally a string, and converts it to a date, which you are then taking and formatting back into a string. Now, by default reports are set to have their Language property set to English (United States) so the CDate function is taking the string representation of the date 04-Nov-2011 to be 04/11/2011 which it is then converting, using the US format of MM-dd-yyyy (not the Pakistani one) into being the date 11-Apr-2011 because it thinks the month comes first.
So, you should change your Language setting of your report to =User!Language so that it supports whatever the user's language is and will format things appropriately. This may be enough to make your expression work.
Regardless, if Fields!InvDate.Value is being supplied as a date field (as it should be) there is no need for the CDate function and this should work:
="Dated: " & Format(Fields!InvDate.Value, "dd-MMM-yyyy")
There is also the FormatDateTime function but unfortunately it doesn't support the format you want to use.
Have you looked at the RDLC options for Formatting a Report: Format the Date?