I have a legacy VB6 application which contains this code:
Begin VB.Label LblStDate
Alignment = 1 'Right Justify
AutoSize = -1 'True
[Blah blah blah....]
Top = 0
Width = 75
End
[...]
LblStDate = Date
This makes the label LblStDate
display the current date. On my machine, the label ends up displaying something like "27/08/2011" (that is, dd/mm/yyyy). Is it possible that the label would look different on a machine from another culture (for example, displaying "2011/08/27")?
Yes, VB6 does implicit type conversion, so in your case it is converting a Date type to a String using the user's locale and regional settings. Don't ever rely on a given format being used and once dates/times are converted to a string, you shouldn't really convert them back (unless under controlled circumstances).
You can get the same result using the explicit CStr(Date)
call.