That is the fix, thanks. Now I have to rewrite the routine to make sure I can
parse either a '-' or a '/' and set the date separator correctly.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Van Canneyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lazarus Mailing List" <lazarus@miraclec.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 08:32
Subject: Re: [lazarus] StrToDate error
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Jeff Steinkamp wrote:
Can someone tell me why the following is producing an Econvert Exception?
StrTodate('04/11/1955');
I have even tried setting the ShortDateFormat to 'm/d/y/' and 'mm/dd/yyyy'.
If you're running on linux, try setting
DateSeparator:='/';
because by default it is set to '-'. After doing that it works fine here.
Michael.
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