Hello,

I'm using this configuration:

initialization
  DefaultFormatSettings.DateSeparator := '-';
  DefaultFormatSettings.TimeSeparator := ':';
  DefaultFormatSettings.ShortDateFormat := 'yyyy-mm-dd';
  DefaultFormatSettings.ShortTimeFormat := 'hh:nn:ss';

but, when i try:

var
  t: TDateTime;
begin
  t := StrToDate('2013-02-04 11:39:54'); // to format yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss
end;

result: "2013-02-04 11:39:54" is not a valid date format.

What am I doing wrong?

Hi,

Στις 4/2/2014 3:54 μμ, ο/η silvioprog έγραψε:

Try the overload StrToDate(S, DefaultFormatSettings), or better declare a FFormatSettings: TFormatSettings setup it as you like pass that to the StrToDate leaving the DefaultFormatSettings.

Regards,

2014-02-04 Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis :

Thank you Dimitrios!

Worked with:

var
  t: TDateTime;
begin
  t := StrToDateTime('2013-02-04 11:39:54');
end;

sorry, I forgot to use the function StrToDateTime. :S

In our previous episode, silvioprog said:

Or use

http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/dateutils/scandatetime.html

silvioprog wrote

t := StrToDate('2013-02-04 11:39:54'); // to format yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss

the above is StrToDate but you are also sending the time... you would see similar if you were sending the above string to StrToTime...

StrToDate only accepts date formats as StrToTime only accepts time formats...

if you want to send both, you have to use StrToDateTime ;)

2014-02-04 waldo kitty :

Yes yes, after I saw that in typing fast, I forgot to use StrToDateTime.

2014-02-04 Marco van de Voort :

Very nice option, I did not know this function. It would be better (or fast) that the SysUtils date funcs? For example, in my new units, would be better to use ScanDateTime instead of StrToDateTime?

Thx Marco! :)

2014-02-05 silvioprog :

It would be nice if you could:

  if TryScanDateTime(datestring, datetime) then
    raise EMyOwnExcept.Create('My own datetime exception message');