Using the “short date”, “medium date” and “long date” formats

I came across a line of code that formatted a date in VBA like this: Format(aDate,”short date”). And I didn’t get it. So with a little investigation, it turns out that “short date” (and “medium date” and “long date”) relate to the specified system methods of expressing dates found in the regional settings. So I wrote this little bit of code:

This is what I got:
06/05/2012
5-Jun-12
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

On both my XP box and my Mac, except that on the Mac, “long date” maps to Full. Trouble is, on neither machine do I have a “medium” setting, or a setting that maps to “medium date”. So. it looks like “medium date” is XL internal.

I’m not sure what great good these choices do. It would appear to be full proof to just specify the format. This capability does not extend to the spreadsheet TEXT() function.

Here’s a page that covers it: http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/formulas/format_date.php
You can also do the same with Time.

…mrt
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