Have VBA read dates as numbers?

Hi!

I have a userform that has several textboxes and checkboxes. Some of the textboxes read and display dates from certain cells.
I have the checkboxes conditionally formatted based on the data in the textboxes. However it doesn't seem to be reading the
dates as a value. Here's an example of my issue to make it clear for you:

txtBox 1 = 01Sep2009
txtBox 2 = 01Oct2009

What I need is for the checkbox text colour to change from black to red if txtBox1 < txtBox2.

Here's the code I have in place:

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It doesn't work when there's dates in the txtBox's, but if I use simple numbers (i.e. txtBox1 = 11 and txtBox2 = 22) then it works
just fine. Maybe VBA isn't reading the dates as numbers, but as text? The formatting of the cells it's reading from are in dates.

Any ideas

Cheers,

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