I'm using dialect 1 and DATE fields for database
In form's I'm using TIB_Date components without masks and I can empty dates without problems.

Riho-Rene Ellermaa
senior programmer
Hansabank

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Worboys (TeamIBO) [mailto:geoff@...]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 8:27 AM
To: paulfilmer
Subject: Re: [IBO] blank edit mask for date fields

> Essentially, I want to know how to allow null dates into the
> database. Eg if I edit a record, and the DBEdit box shows
> '14/02/2002', I can blank out all the numbers to get ' / / '.
> However Delphi then complains that ' / / ' is not a valid date!

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