On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Anton Tichawa wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > >On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jilani Khaldi wrote: > > > > > > > >>Hi All, > >>Does somebody kown the algorithm to convert a date from the double > >>format to an explicit format? > >>Example: the function "now" givers me: 3.825956615197917E+004 > >>I want to transform it in: year-month-day.... > >> > >> > > > > > >Why not use DateToStr() or FormatDateTime() from sysutils ? > > > >Michael. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > > > > > > > Or, if you need the values for some sort of calculation, you have to > > - find out the reference date, i. e. DateToStr(0) > - and the scale, (I think 1.0 = 1 day) > - consider the month lengths, with february changing in leap years > - for historic dates, consider calendar switches > > There's a conversion function somewhere on my hard disk. If I find it, > I'll post it later. The dateutils unit that comes with FPC 1.9.x contains a bazillion conversion routines. Michael _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
