Not sure if this came through the list before.... Graeme .
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 22-Apr-2006 12:31 Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [fpc-devel] Magic numbers used in TryEncodeDate] To: FPC developers' list <[email protected]> On 22/04/06, Bram Kuijvenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC this is commonly solved by differentiating between th Gregorian and > Julian Calendar. I.e. the EncodeDate function etc. work with the Gregorian > Calendar. Before that date in 1752 people used the Julian Calendar, but we > map all TDateTimes to Gregorian dates. > This makes sense. As far as I know, in most Calender components, there is an option to specify which calender system to use (Gregorian, Julian, etc..) and Gregorian being the default. Bottom Line: *Don't* invent a time travel machine! :-) Regards, - Graeme - -- There's no place like 127.0.0.1
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