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Old April 13th 06, 02:37 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms
Long Nguyen
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Default date field behaviour

Thanks Sue.

Regards
Long
"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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The date/time fields are all supposed to work with the same date logic, but
your testing seems to indicate that is not in fact the case. I can't explain
the discrepancy and can only suggest that you tell users to use 17:00, not
1700 unless they want to go back in time.

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"Long Nguyen" wrote in message
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More on this - The start and end time fields in the Appoitment form seems
to
work ok, ie. Outlook would convert a "1700" input to 5:00PM. I just wonder
how it is implemented. Any extra programming underneath is needed for
this?

(outlook 2002, sp1)

In my custom form I created a date field with format hh:mm PM (that is
displaying only the time, not the date). When I entered 1700 (without . or
it displayed 8:00AM (instead of 5:00PM). Is this a bug or the way it
works?

(If I had . or :, e.g. 17:00 it converted to correct time of 5:00PM)

I did more investigation I found out that when 1700 was entered the field
had the year set to 1700 and time to 8:00AM. It seems that without the .
or
: Outlook considered the value as the year. It seems that this is the way
it
works.



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