How to display distinct date in a dropdown

Question

I know I've done this before. For the life of me I can't see
what I'm doing wrong. I have a query outputing date/time formats
from an Access database into a select dropdown box. I can't get the
duplicate dates out. I'm wondering if it is because the time in the
database is different for each row? I just want to display one
9/8/2006 even if there are 40 of them. Below is my code:
<cfquery name="qdate" datasource="mydb">
SELECT DISTINCT entereddate FROM archivedletters ORDER BY
entereddate
</cfquery>
<!---the output--->
<form action="queryarchived.cfm" name="StartDate"
method="post">
<strong>Search Sample Numbers By Date
Range:</strong><br>
Beginning:<br>
<select name="StartDate">
<cfoutput query="qdate">
<option value="#entereddate#">#DateFormat(entereddate,
'mm/dd/yy')#</option>
</cfoutput>
</select>
<br>
End:<br>
<select name="EndDate">
<cfoutput query="qdate">
<option value="#entereddate#">#DateFormat(entereddate,
'mm/dd/yy')#</option>
</cfoutput>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Go">
</form>

Answer 1

Hi Dan,
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried your method but I am a bit
confused of how to go about it. I'm not sure about what the 'abc'
is and how to query the query. This is what I did:
<cfquery name="qdate" datasource="mydb">
SELECT DISTINCT entereddate, 'abc' as field2
FROM archivedletters
ORDER BY entereddate
</cfquery>
<cfloop query="qdate">
<cfset field2 = "#DateFormat(entereddate,
'mm/dd/yy')#">
</cfloop>
<!---output--->
<form action="queryarchived.cfm" name="StartDate"
method="post">
<strong>Search Sample Numbers By Date
Range:</strong><br>
Beginning:<br>
<select name="StartDate">
<cfoutput query="qdate">
<option value="#field2#">#field2#</option>
</cfoutput>
</select>
<br>
End:<br>
<select name="EndDate">
<cfoutput query="qdate">
<option value="#field2#">#field2#</option>
</cfoutput>
</select>
All this does is return a list of abc's. I know I'm doing
something really wrong.