I have a device that sends data over the serial port with a timestamp in this format:
(230424194642W) This is coded as yymmddhhnnss and the last char designates daylight savings (S)ummer or normal (W)inter time. In the example above it is W for normal winter time. What I have done so far is: - Remove the () at start and end - Remove the W at the end - Add 20 (as the century) up front - Insert a space after the 6th char (so between date and time - Set the TFormatsettings like this (to say that there are no separators): FS.DateSeparator := #0; (Is this how it is done?) FS.TimeSeparator := #0; - Then the call: Value := StrToDateTime(sValue, FS); (Value is declared as TDateTime) This triggers an exception with the message: "194522" is not a valid time What is the proper way to decode a string as shown above? Since the date part could be decoded, why not also the time part, after all I separated the two with a space and set the same separators? -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
