Thanks, John. That worked. Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 6, 2016, at 10:43, John Landmesser <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 05.07.2016 19:20, Larry Dalton wrote: >> I use the following function to read a date from a Libre Office dbase file. >> The field is stored as >> a string, ie '04/08/2016'. >> >> function db_date(const dog_base:tdbf;const t_field:string):tdatetime; >> var test_date:tdatetime; >> test_bool:boolean; >> test_string:string; >> begin {starts function db_date(const dog_base:tdbf;const >> t_field:string):tdatetime;} >> test_bool:=dog_base.FieldByName(t_field).Value<>null; >> if test_bool then test_date:=dog_base.FieldByName(t_field).AsDateTime >> else test_date:=now; >> result:=test_date; >> end; {ends function db_date(const dog_base:tdbf;const >> t_field:string):tdatetime;} >> I am running lazarus 1.6, on both Windows 8 and Linux Mint 17. The above >> function works fine on the Windows 8 box, but on the Linux Mint box, I get >> the following error: “04/08/2016” is not a valid date format. Why does it >> work on Windows but not Linux? How can I rewrite it to work on both? > > > I think thats due to "locales" defined the right way on Windows, but differs > on Linux. > > Have a look at: > > http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/dateseparator.html > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
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