Why don't you just set the TDateTime to zero?
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From: "Chris Veale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 9:58 AM
Subject: RE: [DUG]:stringtodate problem?
> im sorry I cant have made myself clear (not surptising)...
>
> I mean I enforce columns in an f1book component to be entered in ascending
> date format where the book looks like...
>
> date1 date2 date3 date4
> col1 col2 col3 col4
>
> and the dates are ascending so I set this var earlier than the first date
> could ever be so I didnt have to write a special case for the first col.
>
> and it still dies on strtodate('01/01/1900');
>
> Ive just changed this to encodedate(01,01,1970); to see if this helps, but
> as the computer is in Auckland I cant check any fixes till tomorrow, so Im
> kinda flying blind at the moment...
>
> Thanks all for your advice.
>
> Chris
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Chris Milham
> > Sent: Monday, 27 January 2003 9:50 a.m.
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: Re: [DUG]:stringtodate problem?
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I am understanding what you are trying to do correctly, by
> > "earliest
> > date" you mean you are trying to get the earliest date possible that
> > Delphi can store. Is this correct?
> >
> > If so, why not just set your TDate/TDateTime var to zero.
> > This will set
> > your datetime var to the earliest value that can be stored, namely
> > "30/12/1899 12:00 am"
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Chris Veale wrote:
> >
> > >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
> > >
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