Try "Set Use System Formats" under the File section of the script steps.
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Daniel Farnan
Developer/Consultant
DeskPower Computers Pty Ltd
daniel-mppjlu5RH6/EDpNNQDCiTA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ignorance is curable, not preventable.
on 28/9/05 10:06, Robert Currie at
recurrie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've tried all the suggested fixes, but nothing I can do will make a
> file I created in Filemaker 7 use the selected date format --
> dd/mm/yyyy for the GetAsDate. I can create new files on my system
> using the correct format, but this older file refused to use the
> proper formats.
>
> When I use an Insert->Current date a dd/mm/yyyy appears, but the
> "GetAsDate" function never returns the correct value -- it is stuck
> using mm/dd/yyyy.
>
> I've made a clone of the file on my system -- which I have set to
> dd/mm/yyyy -- but no difference in behaviour.
>
> Any ideas? And as an aside, does anyone else find FMP's handling of
> this to be a major pain? Forums and newsgroups seem full of people
> having problems with this.
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