Ok, except it would have been trivial to make deltadate variable.
It limits it. The only reason we noticed it now is that I
implemented an Age field - so the users can type date or age. And
the age never goes above 99 years.
On 4 Nov 99 at 10:15, Cooke, Andrew wrote:
> 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.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Delphi TDateTime
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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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