Further Question on American Date Format

Thanks Scott and Aron for the info on American date formatting. However I'm
still slightly confused.
recap of problem:
One of my table's in SQL Server contains a field of a field type 'datetime'
and recording of dates are stored in American format and not Irish/Uk
format. As sugessted by previous posting that the client application control
this, I used Enterprise Manager to insert a record into the table and the
date format is still storing as American format. i.e." 8/16/2004 4:34:52PM"
not as "16/08/2004 4:34:52PM"
This is causing me major proiblems as I'm trying to run simple reporting
form a web base client base on dates. The only way the reporting will work if
I change the date format on my machine to american format.
Any ideas ?
Thanks,
Liam
Hi
SQL does not store the date in an human readable format and does not persist
the formatting you used to enter it. It is up to you, when you select the
data, to format it to what you want.
Look at CAST or CONVERT in BOL for formatting information.
Regards
Mike
"Liam Mac" wrote:

> Thanks Scott and Aron for the info on American date formatting. However I'm
> still slightly confused.
> recap of problem:
> One of my table's in SQL Server contains a field of a field type 'datetime'
> and recording of dates are stored in American format and not Irish/Uk
> format. As sugessted by previous posting that the client application control
> this, I used Enterprise Manager to insert a record into the table and the
> date format is still storing as American format. i.e." 8/16/2004 4:34:52PM"
> not as "16/08/2004 4:34:52PM"
> This is causing me major proiblems as I'm trying to run simple reporting
> form a web base client base on dates. The only way the reporting will work if
> I change the date format on my machine to american format.
> Any ideas ?
> Thanks,
> Liam
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