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Using ISO Notation with SQL Server Dates

Date Handling

Using ISO Notation with SQL Server Dates

by  Norris68  Posted    (Edited  )
SQL Server can handle dates in ISO notation. This avoids any interpretation errors/confusion caused by different international date formats. There are three possibilities: date only, time only or date/time. (Note the curly brackets)
Date Only: {d 'yyyy-mm-dd'}
Time Only: {t 'hh:nn:ss'}
Date/Time: {ts 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss'}

The following public enum & function will return a correctly formatted ISO date string:
Code: 
Public Enum SQLDateEnum
    SQLDateOnly
    SQLDateTime
    SQLTimeOnly
End Enum
Public Function SQLDateFormat(InDate As Date, DateFormat As SQLDateEnum) As String
Select Case DateFormat
Case SQLDateOnly:
    SQLDateFormat = "{d '" & Format$(InDate, "yyyy-mm-dd") & "'}"
Case SQLTimeOnly:
    SQLDateFormat = "{t '" & Format$(InDate, "hh:nn:ss") & "'}"
Case SQLDateTime:
    SQLDateFormat = "{ts '" & Format$(InDate, "yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss") & "'}"
End Select
End Function

Usage examples:
Dim SQL As String
SQL = "UPDATE MyTable SET MyText='Hello World' WHERE MyDate = " & SQLDateFormat(Date(),SQLDateOnly)
SQL = "UPDATE MyTable SET MyDate=" & SQLDateFormat(Date(),SQLDateOnly) & " WHERE MyText='Hello World'"
SQL = SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MyDate BETWEEN " & SQLDateFormat(DateAdd("d",-3,Date()),SQLDateOnly) & " AND " & SQLDateFormat(Date(),SQLDateOnly)
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