You're absolutely right. I was being a dunce.
As it happens my "workaround" is in fact exactly how I should be doing it.

Not sure why I expected the control to magically know what I meant to happen when I showed the form...

Need a break ...



Cheers.

<< So I think your issue was having a Text value at design time .. maybe. >>

This ^^^^^

and no maybe, definitely.

EWB does not "store" any date/time formatting in any of the visual controls.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com