Hi this is my first post to this group and compared to what I have been
reading since joining several weeks ago my problem is hopefully a trivial
one. I did post this question on borland's Interbase.opensource newsgroup
but as I haven't had a response I thought I'd use this as my introduction to
this group.

I have a date field in a table and am using a Delphi TMaskEdit field to
enable date entry in the format 19032002 but what I am finding is that the
is stored and retrieved from IB as 19/3/2002. Is there a way to change this
so that the dates' day and month are in fact stored and retrieved in '00'
format?

Thanks for your help.

jackie....(been using IB6.0.2.0 for a little while now and while only an
beginner aspires to be a guru one day...LOL)