Hi all,

Who knows the answer to this simple problem?

DateToStr(now) returns nicely the string equivalent for the current date 
using ShortDateFormat.

StrToDate('<date string>') returns the TDateTime for the given date string. 
However, when you have the date time settings so that you use e.g. 
'25-Oct-2000', thus the ShortDateFormat = 'dd-MMM-yyyy' then it falls over.

The help on StrToDate says "ShortDateFormat global variable--possible 
combinations are m/d/y, d/m/y, and y/m/d".
This implies (to my opinion) that StrToDate is not using the 
ShortDateFormat !

Eg. (using ShortDateFormat = 'dd-MMM-yyyy' )
        DateToStr(now) returns nicely '25-Oct-2000'
but     StrToDate needs '25-10-2000'

        and so StrToDate( DateToStr(now) ) does not work!!


Has anybody any code to do a String-To-Date conversion using 
ShortDateFormat?


Thanks a lot for any help.

John.

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