Converting dates to Padded SQL format

[Rob Cozens]

>We want  to convert
>
>April 15, 1998
>
>into
>
>04/15/1998

Aloha Sannyasin,

This works for me on Mac OS9 (after setting the system control panel 
short date format to include century):

on mouseup
   get "April 15, 1998"
   convert it to short system date
   answer it
end mouseup
-- 

Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
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