Hi all I am having a spot of trouble with strings and dates...
I have an import which gives me dates in the following format: yyyyMMDD, and puts them in a Character field. I want to parse the date, so i created a setfields action with a value of ((((SUBSTR($ImportedDateCharField$, 6, 7) + "-") + SUBSTR($ImportedDateCharField$, 4, 5)) + "-") + SUBSTR($ImportedDateCharField$, 0, 3)) + " 01:00:00" If this is put in another char field the value displayed is "31-05-2001 01:00:00" If I put that value in the date field, I get "Tue, 9 Aug, 11 1:33:57 " But if i hard code the textual value "31-05-2001 01:00:00" in the date/time field - it works great. PS I am using the data import tool for the import - I thought I could define the format in the options pane, but that is apparently only for displaying - not for parsing date/times ??? I hope someone can see where I am going wrong. best regards Jonas Stevnsvig _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
