Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 12:27 AM 31-10-02 +1100, you wrote:
>
>>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?
>>

See the global variables LongDateFormat and ShortDateFormat in help:
"Currency and date/time formatting variables" of kylix or delphi.