Question : Date Problems

Hi,

I have a recordset in Dreamwever which asks a database to reurn all receords WHERE endDate is between todays date, and 40 days time.  Here is the sql in the recordset:

SELECT *
FROM tblContract
WHERE contractEnd BETWEEN #nowDate# AND #xDate#
ORDER BY contractEnd ASC

nowDate: runtume: Date()
xDate: runtime:

Unfortunatly the recordset is returning all dates between 12/02/02 and todays date      - Random

If anyone has any ideas as tto how to put this right, i would be most greatful.

thanks in advance

Paul

Answer : Date Problems

I think it depends on where you come from, access only reads American format, i.e. mm/dd/yyyy.
The first thing to do is set up your dates to read mm/dd/yyyy as follows:

<%
Session.LCID = 2064
fromdate = date
todate = date+40
intTODate = TODATE
intFROMDate = FROMDATE
intTODay = Day(intTODate)
intTOMonth = Month(intTODate)
intTOYear = Year(intTODate)
if Len(intTODay)=1 Then intTODay = "0" & intTODay
if Len(intTOMonth)=1 Then intTOMonth = "0" & intTOMonth
if Len(intTOYear)=4 Then intTOYear = Right(intTOYear, 2)
intFROMDay = Day(intFROMDate)
intFROMMonth = Month(intFROMDate)
intFROMYear = Year(intFROMDate)
if Len(intFROMDay)=1 Then intFROMDay = "0" & intFROMDay
if Len(intFROMMonth)=1 Then intFROMMonth = "0" & intFROMMonth
if Len(intFROMYear)=4 Then intFROMYear = Right(intFROMYear, 2)
nowdate  = ( IntFROMMonth& "/" & IntFROMDay & "/" & IntFROMYear)
xdate = (IntTOMonth & "/" & IntTODay & "/" & IntTOYear)
%>

Now your dates are in the correct format for reading access databases

Now lets read the database

<%  Session.LCID = 1033 %>
<% SELECT * FROM tblContract WHERE WHERE contractEnd BETWEEN #nowDate# AND #xDate#
 ORDER BY contractEnd ASC %>

Try it and see if it works, as I said I am not sure where you come from, but I being Irish have this problem a lot and the above code fixes it.