Tag Archives | Japanese Date Format

Birthday Challenges, part 2

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

Dear FileMaker Hacks,

In my personnel database, how can I find all birthdays in a given range, for example, between September 8 and November 15?

— Perplexed in Peoria

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Birthday Challenges, part 1

Posted on September 7, 2011 by

Dear FileMaker Hacks,

My personnel database has a scripted routine that locates all employees with birthdays in the current month, like so:

When I sent a copy of the database to our sister organization in Australia, the scripted routine did not function properly for them. Could it have something to do with their computer expecting D/M/Y rather than M/D/Y?

— Perplexed in Peoria

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