date default settings on Access

[colmkav]

Hi, can someone tell me how I change the settings in my Access 97 to
default to English dates rather than US dates?

I notice all my dates like 1/5/2007 is being treated as 5th Jan 2007
rather than 1 May 2007.

Colm

[Rick Brandt]

"colmkav" <co******@yahoo.co.ukwrote in message
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Hi, can someone tell me how I change the settings in my Access 97 to
default to English dates rather than US dates?

I notice all my dates like 1/5/2007 is being treated as 5th Jan 2007
rather than 1 May 2007.

That is a Windows setting, not an Access setting. Further if you are talking
about how date literals are interpreted in code and queries, any time you use an
ambiguous format Access will *always* assume US format first unless that results
in an invalid date value. For those situations you are best served using a
non-ambiguous format like ISO yyyy-mm-dd.

--
Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com

[colmkav]

thx. the windows setting which I have changed resolved them problem.
Not sure what you mean in the second part. Surely if you set the
windows settings to English dates Access will not treat dates as
English ones.

when I called dateadd("d", 1, dt). where dt is the date 1/5/2007. I
get 2/5/2007 returned. before I made this change I got 1/6/2007.

What cases does Access choose US?
On 2 May, 13:29, "Rick Brandt" <[e-mail]:

"colmkav" <[e-mail] in message

news:11*********************@c35g2000hsg.googlegro ups.com...

Hi, can someone tell me how I change the settings in my Access 97 to
default to English dates rather than US dates?

I notice all my dates like 1/5/2007 is being treated as 5th Jan 2007
rather than 1 May 2007.

That is a Windows setting, not an Access setting. Further if you are talking
about how date literals are interpreted in code and queries, any time you use an
ambiguous format Access will *always* assume US format first unless that results
in an invalid date value. For those situations you are best served using a
non-ambiguous format like ISO yyyy-mm-dd.

--
Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com

[Rick Brandt]

colmkav wrote:

thx. the windows setting which I have changed resolved them problem.
Not sure what you mean in the second part. Surely if you set the
windows settings to English dates Access will not treat dates as
English ones.

when I called dateadd("d", 1, dt). where dt is the date 1/5/2007. I
get 2/5/2007 returned. before I made this change I got 1/6/2007.

What cases does Access choose US?

As stated, when using literal date strings in queries or code.

UPDATE TableName
SET DateField = #1/9/2007#

Will result in that field being updated to January 9th 2007 regardless of
the regional settings in Windows. If you wanted September 1st you would
need to use a non-ambiguous format like...

#1-Sep-2007#
#2007-09-01#
#September 1, 2007#

--
Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com