On 4 Nov 99 at 10:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Rohit Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > 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 ?
>
> The given reason is OLE compatibility. Can you put negative values though?
Encode Date is fine. Decodedate has been lazy-coded. This is what
stuffs it up. I might try changing DecodeDate instead to handle
negative values.
Rohit
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