On 20/10/2009, Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote: > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Call StrToDate to parse a string that specifies a date. If S does
[...] > First lines say it all. "dd/mm/yyy hh:nn" is not supposed to work. That's up for discussion! :-) It says the string must specify a date. It does not say it must ONLY specify a date. It parses the string from the left extracting what it needs, once it has all required information to build a date, it ignores the rest. Also, do I specify a date from the 17th century? Does StrToDate() limit itself forever to only assume 19xx & 20xxx dates? Why does StrToDate() use the ShortDateFormat - didn't we learn our lesson with the Y2K bug? PS: Oh and a nice hidden little features (I couldn't find documentation for). When you specify a date format as 'yyyy/mm/dd' or dd/mm/yy etc... The '/' character is NOT the separator! The '/' in that formatting string means the separator specified by the global DateSeparator variable. Yet if you specify 'yyyy-mm-dd', then the '-' character IS the date separator to use, ignoring global DateSeparator variable. Maybe the FPC docs could be extended to include this little gem. By the way, I tested the above theory with Kylix 3 and Delphi 7. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
