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Asked: 2026-05-11T05:32:09+00:00

I have a VB6 application which works with datetime values in SQL Server (which

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I have a VB6 application which works with datetime values in SQL Server (which are obviously storing dates as mm/dd/yyyy).

I need to represent these dates to the user as dd/mm/yyyy, read them in as dd/mm/yyyy, and then store them back into the database as the standard mm/dd/yyyy.

This is the current code snippets I have which pull + insert the dates, however I have read many conflicting methods of handling the conversions, and I was wondering if anyone here knew a clear solution for this situation.

'SELECT * FROM List WHERE DateIn LIKE '%' & txtDateIn.Text & '%''  'UPDATE [Progress] SET [Date] = '' & txtDate.Text & '''  txtDate.Text = '' & RecordSet.Fields('Date').Value

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

**Update

Actually I just noticed I do have dates stored in datetime fields in the form of 16/08/2009 00:00:00 which is dd/mm/yyyy. So perhaps I misunderstood the problem. But when trying to update the datetime value I have been getting ‘The conversion of char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.’.

I assumed this was because the date formats did not match (causing a problem with having a month value out of range) however I do have date values in the format of day/month/year in the datetime field already. And the date being submitted to the database is definitely dd/mm/yyyy.

**** Update 2**

Ok, there seems to be some confusion I have caused. I apologize.

  • I am storing the dates as datetime in the SQL database
  • The texts are TextBox controls in the VB6 application
  • I am running SQL SELECT statements to read the dates from the database and place the value in a TextBox
  • I then have a ‘commit’ command button which then performs an UPDATE SQL statement to place the value of the TextBox into the datetime field in the SQL database
  • This works perfectly fine until 1 specific occasion.

In this occasion I have a datetime value (which SQL Server 2005 displays as 16/08/2009 00:00:00) which is read from the database and populated the TextBox with the value 16/08/2009. Now when I try to run the UPDATE statement without modifying the TextBox text I get the error ‘The conversion of char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.’

This does not occur with other records such as one where the date is 04/08/2009 so the only issue I can see is possibly with the position of day and month in the value because if the DB is expecting month first then obviously 16/08/2009 would be out-of-range. However the value in the database is already 16/08/2009 with no issues.

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  1. Well after all of that the problem was simple. I have the date value wrapped in single (‘) and double (‘) quotes. The problem was encountered due to date values not requiring the single quotes. Removing them solved the issue.

    Thank you anyway for trying to help all.

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