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I have pulled into Excel a lot of information from a database, unfortunately
the database has only 2 characters for the year in a date field do people are having their dates of birth set as 24th June 2047 How can I correct this in Excel? |
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How is the cell formatted? When I enter 6/24/47, I get June 24, 1947 returned.
Dave -- A hint to posters: Specific, detailed questions are more likely to be answered than questions that provide no detail about your problem. "Keith" wrote: I have pulled into Excel a lot of information from a database, unfortunately the database has only 2 characters for the year in a date field do people are having their dates of birth set as 24th June 2047 How can I correct this in Excel? |
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When I input a date manually is is correct but when it is pulled in from a
database using a Query it's wrong. "Dave F" wrote: How is the cell formatted? When I enter 6/24/47, I get June 24, 1947 returned. Dave -- A hint to posters: Specific, detailed questions are more likely to be answered than questions that provide no detail about your problem. "Keith" wrote: I have pulled into Excel a lot of information from a database, unfortunately the database has only 2 characters for the year in a date field do people are having their dates of birth set as 24th June 2047 How can I correct this in Excel? |
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Can you modify the query to spell out the full four digit year? What is the
SQL you're using? Dave -- A hint to posters: Specific, detailed questions are more likely to be answered than questions that provide no detail about your problem. "Keith" wrote: When I input a date manually is is correct but when it is pulled in from a database using a Query it's wrong. "Dave F" wrote: How is the cell formatted? When I enter 6/24/47, I get June 24, 1947 returned. Dave -- A hint to posters: Specific, detailed questions are more likely to be answered than questions that provide no detail about your problem. "Keith" wrote: I have pulled into Excel a lot of information from a database, unfortunately the database has only 2 characters for the year in a date field do people are having their dates of birth set as 24th June 2047 How can I correct this in Excel? |
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It's probably because it is seen as text, what happens if you format a cell
with those dates as general? If it is a number it should return 53867 Regards, Peo Sjoblom "Keith" wrote in message ... When I input a date manually is is correct but when it is pulled in from a database using a Query it's wrong. "Dave F" wrote: How is the cell formatted? When I enter 6/24/47, I get June 24, 1947 returned. Dave -- A hint to posters: Specific, detailed questions are more likely to be answered than questions that provide no detail about your problem. "Keith" wrote: I have pulled into Excel a lot of information from a database, unfortunately the database has only 2 characters for the year in a date field do people are having their dates of birth set as 24th June 2047 How can I correct this in Excel? |
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Keith
Might help if you go into Regional Settings in Control Panel and change the ending year for the century under CustomizeDate "Interpret 2-digit years as between" Maybe back to 2030 or similar. Windows default is 2029. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 07:56:08 -0700, Keith wrote: I have pulled into Excel a lot of information from a database, unfortunately the database has only 2 characters for the year in a date field do people are having their dates of birth set as 24th June 2047 How can I correct this in Excel? |
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