Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 21 jul 2005, at 00:40, Tony Maro wrote:
Can someone confirm the date issue for me?
I can't confirm it, but I do want to mention that I fixed all
datetime-related routines for *nix platforms in sysutils a while ago.
They operated based on the supposition that the dates they get are in
Windows format, as opposed to the number of seconds since x/x/1970.
I have a concern on that - and please keep in mind I've not even looked
at the code, so I don't know if it's an issue or not.
My main purpose in using FPC is to write cross-platform applications.
From what I gather, I'll now need to understand that TDateTime doesn't
actually store things the same way on different OS's? I know, FPC's
goal is not specifically Delphi compatibility, but...
Here's a quote I found online:
"In Delphi for Win32 (and Kylix), TDateTime is defined as a Double
(64-bit floating-point number). Date and time information is stored as
the count of days since midnight on 30-Dec-1899."
Here you can see that even Kylix uses the same methodology in storing
TDateTime values.
I can see both perspectives, but if the idea is to make it easier to
develop cross-platform software, I'd expect TDateTime to be stored the
same way across platforms regardless of how the OS counts. A lot of
software written for Delphi is going to be awfully hard to convert for
Linux, Mac, etc if TDateTime is stored differently everywhere.
-Tony
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