Sorry, I think I just answered my own question :-! . Woult using the TFormatsetting variant of StrToDateTime be the "better way"?
Dave. On 05/07/2015 12:25 PM, David Copeland wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using the following bit of code to convert a date from an external > source. > > var > timestamp: TDateTime; > event_date, event_time: string; > begin > ShortDateFormat := 'm/d/y'; > try > timestamp := StrToDateTime(event_date + ' ' + event_time); > except > // error handling ... > end; > end; > > However, the compiler warns that ShortDateFormat is deprecated. Is there > another way to accomplish this? > > Thanks, > Dave Copeland. > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal