John
the problem is that the "spelled" date formats
work for output, but not for input. On input the
d/m/y ordering is still in effect, but the input
expected is numeric (even for the month)
there is a pretty good discussion of this (and delphi
date stuff in general) here
http://www.aimtec.com.au/articles/ItsAboutTime/Default.htm
-ns
-----Original Message-----
From: John Christenhusz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, October 26, 2000 02:16
Subject: [DUG]: StrToDate - DateToStr
Hi all,
Who knows the answer to this simple problem?
DateToStr(now) returns nicely the string equivalent for the current date
using ShortDateFormat.
StrToDate('<date string>') returns the TDateTime for the given date string.
However, when you have the date time settings so that you use e.g.
'25-Oct-2000', thus the ShortDateFormat = 'dd-MMM-yyyy' then it falls over.
The help on StrToDate says "ShortDateFormat global variable--possible
combinations are m/d/y, d/m/y, and y/m/d".
This implies (to my opinion) that StrToDate is not using the
ShortDateFormat !
Eg. (using ShortDateFormat = 'dd-MMM-yyyy' )
DateToStr(now) returns nicely '25-Oct-2000'
but StrToDate needs '25-10-2000'
and so StrToDate( DateToStr(now) ) does not work!!
Has anybody any code to do a String-To-Date conversion using
ShortDateFormat?
Thanks a lot for any help.
John.
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