To avoid this, you will have to first paste in non text based editor like Word and then copy from Word and then paste into a Chrome editor. If you take right click in Word / Wordpad and paste as text, then additional quotes will appear again. But above workaround is an addition...
I'm trying to convert the date format that is used by the DateTimePicker control (which I think is MM/DD/YYYY by default) to the format this is recognized by MySQL (which is the DateTime field format, which is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS). I don't care so much about the HH:MM:SS ...