Because Mr Borland did it (in Delphi 2 so I remember) so that TDateTime was
compatible with Mr Microsoft's OLE date/time.
I had a feeling that you could use -ve values to get dates earlier than
1900. Have you experimented with this at all?
- Andrew Cooke.
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> Can anyone see any reason why I shouldnt fix this by changing
> DateDelta in SysUtils.pas ?
>
> This is the craziest thing I have come across. I could keep dates
> downto 0 and time downto centiseconds with 8 byte sin DOS, so why
> cant Mr. Borland ?
>
> On 4 Nov 99 at 9:07, Rohit Gupta wrote:
>
> > I must be missing something, but why does this appear to base its
> > value on 1900 ? I cant date anything before that date for any
> > purpose - date of birth for instance.
> >
> > I am not looking forward to replacing this system/vcl wide. :-(
> >
> > Rohit
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