Hi Chris I find that it safer to use DecodeDate and EncodeDate when dealing with TDateTime - this way you don't have to be concerned with which date format is being considered by the conversion routine.
HTH Donovan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Veale Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 8:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]:stringtodate problem? Hi. I am trying to do a strtodate('01/01/1900'); This is used simply to determine an order of a sequence of dates so I do this to set the earliest date. Now on almost all computers this is no problem, but on ONE computer this dies with an "unknown exception" and I can capture the following information... There is also a problem where the computers system date format was mm/dd/yyyy and this caused another problem, but I think ive fixed that one with a formatdate call, but this one is really baffling me. The OS is the same as I am running so I cant see an issue there, and the system shortdateformat is now correct also. Can anyone think what this could be? I know datetime is from 13/12/1899 could this be a problem? should I change it to strtodate('01/01/1970'); cheers Chris Veale ================================================================= date/time : 2003-01-24 16:51 computer name : SERVER operating system : Windows 2000 free disk space : 14,34 GB executable : kiwiload.exe exec. date/time : 2002-12-20 12:01 exception class : Exception exception message : Unknown Exception. thread $2A0: $004F115F kiwiload.exe madExcept 2067 CreateBugReport $004EDE87 kiwiload.exe madExcept 1072 SendShellMail $004EF1F8 kiwiload.exe madExcept 1474 TExceptionBox.DialogWndMethod $004F02B1 kiwiload.exe madExcept 1695 ShowException $004F0499 kiwiload.exe madExcept 1747 ReceiveHandleException $004EB75D kiwiload.exe madTools 390 MsgHandlerWindowProc $004F05FD kiwiload.exe madExcept 1782 HandleExceptionThread main thread ($454): $77E1484C user32.dll $004F0719 kiwiload.exe madExcept 1829 HandleException $004F1635 kiwiload.exe madExcept 2129 InterceptAHandleExcept $00521D84 kiwiload.exe main 2291 validatebudflow $00522B39 kiwiload.exe main 2868 process_bud_flow $005282EC kiwiload.exe main 4535 TForm1.Button2Click $0052A732 kiwiload.exe KiwiLoad 22 KiwiLoad --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.445 / Virus Database: 250 - Release Date: 21/01/03 ______________________________________________________ The contents of this e-mail are privileged and/or confidential to the named recipient and are not to be used by any other person and/or organisation. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete all material pertaining to this e-mail. ______________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
