Op Mon, 2 Jul 2007, schreef Joost van der Sluis:
> Hi all,
>
> In sysstrh.inc MinDateTime is defined as follows:
>
> { For floattodatetime }
> MinDateTime: TDateTime = -657434.0; { 01/01/0100 12:00:00.000 AM }
> MaxDateTime: TDateTime = 2958465.99999;{ 12/31/9999 11:59:59.999 PM }
>
> Why is that? Datetimes before 100AD works perfectly. Can I change it to
> 01/01/01 ? (Why does this restriction exist at all?!?)
Most probably year 2000 releated. To easy conversions from two digit days
to four digit years, rules were introduced that years <100 need to be
interpreted as a two digit years. I am 99% sure that these values have
been designed with some of these rules in mind. I recommend against
changing.
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