And thus is the problem with trying to internationalize a software product where
data, in text format, can be passed back and forth easily.
The space character for a date separator is not part of the enumerated set. It is
'-' or '/' for the short date format.
With international correspondence, the official date format is usually DD MMM YYYY
when using English. But the short date format is one of the following:
DD-MM-YYYY
MM-DD-YYYY
YYYD-MM-DD
where the separator is a '-' or '/'.
To eliminate this problem in Windows and Delphi I normally read the DateSeperator
and ShortDateFormat and save them to a temporary variable, Change the separator to
a '/' and set the short date format to mm-dd-yyyy. Once the program exits, I
restore the DateSeperator and ShortDateFormat globals.
Jeff Steinkamp - N7YG
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Van Canneyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lazarus@miraclec.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 13:30
Subject: RE: [lazarus] StrToDate error
Except in Belgium, where the official date separator is a space,
so I'd get a string like '2007 02 27'.
You should always simply set the date separator char to the correct value.
Michael.
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