International Date Problems

[culshaja]

Hi,
I have an application that is used in different countries.
When people enter dates in France the dates are not accepted if they enter a 3 letter month code i.e. mai = may.
When I change the local settings on my machine to French and issue dteDate = CDate("20 Mai 2000&quot through the Visual Basic immediate window the date is accepted. However, when I use IE5 and input the date into the field the client-side VBScript validation using CDate does not recognise the date as being valid.

I did read that VBScript always interprets a date literal as US-English if it is possible to do so (VBScript Glossary on MSDN). However, I believe that I am passing a date expression.

Any ideas?

James [sig]<p>James Culshaw<br><a href=mailto:jamesculshaw@active-data-solutions.co.uk>jamesculshaw@active-data-solutions.co.uk</a><br><a href=

http://www.active-data-solutions.co.uk>

Active Data Solutions</a><br> [/sig]

 

[kevink]

I dunno if it will work or not, but have you tried changing the locale identifier?

Session.lcid = 1036

does it for France

HTH,

Kevin [sig][/sig]

 

[culshaja]

Will that propogate back to the client from the server. The client machine international settings is set to france. What would the impact be for clients in the UK?

James [sig]<p>James Culshaw<br><a href=mailto:jamesculshaw@active-data-solutions.co.uk>jamesculshaw@active-data-solutions.co.uk</a><br><a href=

http://www.active-data-solutions.co.uk>

Active Data Solutions</a><br> [/sig]