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Asked: 2026-05-10T20:00:18+00:00

We have a problem affecting the production environment only. We have a VB6/ASP website

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We have a problem affecting the production environment only.

We have a VB6/ASP website that allows for data in a database table to be hand edited.

It looks alot like an editable datagrid.

One of the editable columns is a date and when the record is saved dates day/month are being reversed.

03/11/2008 becomes 11/03/2008, if you were to resave the record the date is again 03/11/2008.

I have checked the DB value and it is indeed being reversed however the same identical code on the test systems does not do this.

So i’m very confident i’m looking for an environment change. The test system has the DB and Site hosted locally and in the live setup we have a separate web site server and database server. Where do you suggest I start looking for this problem. I’ve checked the regional settings on the servers and they are set to United Kingdom and the OS date format is correct.

This is SQL Server 2000. hit me with some ideas!.

Thanks 🙂

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  1. If you convert the user supplied string to a date before you feed it to the DB, then the Session.LCID of the thread executing your ASP page is responsible for how dates are interpreted.

    If you feed the date as a string to SQL Server and let the conversion happen there, it will be useful to look into the SET DATEFORMAT and the SET LANGUAGE statements.

    So here is my idea: Either stop using (encouraging your users to use) ambiguous date formats, and this problem will disappear, or make sure all links of the processing chain have a clear understanding on what format to expect.

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