Date formats used by Access SQL

Regardless of the regional settings of your PC, you must provide dates in US format for SQL statements in VBA. Use the following simple function to convert a UK date into a US-format date:

Function SQLDate (ByVal AnyDate As Variant) As String
SQLDate = "#" & Format(AnyDate, "mm/dd/yyyy") & "#"
End Function

Further information in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q149095 ACC

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