DateTime Format -

I have installed the trial version of windows server 2003 on the second hard drive on my computer. I set up IIS and ran my website on it but the problem is when I do something on the site, which has a sqlinsert statement regarding datetime.now it says, "conversion failed when converting datetime from character string"

I think it's to do with the clock on server 2003, the format is like: 11/07/2007 2:39:59 a.m.

I think it should be in formatAM and not a.m.

Any ideas on how to change the time format on a computer?

Or should I just change the Columns in my table to a Nvarcher value or something?

thanks

how is the value coming through? from your application? via now() ?

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Hi,

Thanks for your reply

What do you mean via now()?

I'm using VB and if I use something like. sqldatasource1.insertparameters.add("enddate", datetime.now()) it will give the format: 11/07/2007 2:39:59a.m.(which gives the incorrect string error.) when it should be 11/07/2007 2:39:59AM,

It must be to do with the computer clocks date time format, on server 2003 ?

Any ideas?

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Hi,

Please run the "Regional and Language Options" in your Control Panel. Click on "Customize", and switch to the Time tab, just to modify the "AM symbol" and "PM symbol" and hava a try.

Good Luck.

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store the datetime column in international format or use now.tostring("format eg. MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss etc ")

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If the SqlDbType = DateTime then format should not come into it as the output string display is just a human readable format for display use that is not used by SQL when feeding DateTime values into it.

Do you have a snippet of the code? Something like this is what I would expect for a successful date insertion: (example routine)

public static bool InsertDateIntoRandomTable() {bool blSuccess =false;string strComm ="INSERT INTO [RandomTable] " +"(One_Date) VALUES (@.One_Date)"; SqlConnection sqlConn =new SqlConnection(strGlobalSQLConnection); SqlCommand sqlComm =new SqlCommand(strComm, sqlConn); sqlComm.Parameters.Add("@.One_Date", SqlDbType.DateTime).Value = DateTime.Now; sqlConn.Open();if (sqlComm.ExecuteNonQuery() > 0) blSuccess =true; sqlConn.Close();return blSuccess; }

Hope this helps

Mark

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Hi,

Thanks for the help guys

I tried what you said and it changed the clock on the computer OK. But strangley, on the website; it is still doing the format 11/11/2006 12:07a.m. instead of 11/11/2006 12:07AM

Is it something to do with IIS settings?

Thanks

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Hi,

After you change the time format in Regional and Language Options, you shouldrestartthe Visual Studio and open your application project, build and run the application again. Then check it and explorer the page in your IIS.

Thanks.

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Thanks a lot for your help. I tried restarting my computer etc. but, no luck...