A better CDate for VB6

Question

We have a a VB6 app (in a COM component) which uses CDate() to take a string and cast it to a Date, for storing in a database.

Depending on if we want the applicatio

Answer 1

Another way to go:

Public Enum abDateType
    abMDY
    abDMY
End Enum

Public Function MakeDate(ByVal dateString As String, ByVal dateType As abDateType, Optional delimiter As String = "/") As Date
    Dim strVals() As String
    Dim dtRtnVal As Date
    strVals = Split(dateString, delimiter)
    Select Case dateType
    Case abMDY
        dtRtnVal = DateSerial(strVals(2), strVals(0), strVals(1))
    Case abDMY
        dtRtnVal = DateSerial(strVals(2), strVals(1), strVals(0))
    Case Else
        Err.Raise vbObjectError, , "Unexpected date format."
    End Select
    MakeDate = dtRtnVal
End Function