Converting from String to date

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May 22nd, 2003, 08:42 AM

dcyoung

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Converting from String to date

I have dates stored in a string field that I need to convert to a date field. This is in MS Access. When I use the CDATE function, I get the following kind of conversions.

032903 becomes 1/30/1990
030203 becomes 9/19/1982
040603 becomes 3/1/2011

I can't find any pattern in these. Is there a way to convert from this string of numbers representing a date into an actual date field?

May 22nd, 2003, 12:30 PM

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assuming 21st century...

CDate('20'+mid(stringfield,5,2)
+'-'+mid(stringfield,1,2)
+'-'+mid(stringfield,3,2))

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