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    Posted: 30 November 2004 at 8:13am
I normally enter the forum through a bookmark to active topics (http://forums.webwiz.net/active_topics.asp).
 I've noticed that for the paste 3 or 4 days, when I go to Active Topics, the default time that loads is 4 hours instead of last login time although last login time is in the dropdown.

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The page is currently being e-written to support the new last visit cookie.

To prevent the CDate error, that effects some foreign servers running web wiz forums, instead of storing the date as a Double number, I did some research and came across an VB article on 4guys form rola that covered date issues with Access and SQL Server and also foreign servers.

In the article it said that by storing the date in international format with a (-) dash between the parts it should be read by all Windows based systems.

It also means that IsDate method can be used, which couldn't with Double numbers, so before CDate is use to convert the date I can check it will actually work using IsDate.

The date is now stored in the cookie as:-

2004-30-11 17:23
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wow, good find -boRg-! That will help me out a lot in the future when working on scripts with dates Big smile

Edited by MadDog - 30 November 2004 at 1:52pm
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