<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05.07.2016 19:20, Larry Dalton
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote
cite="mid:A6BB9980-4F9C-4608-B8B1-E76FEAF728E8@gmail.com"
type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<div><span></span></div>
<div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
<div><span></span></div>
<div>
<div dir="ltr">
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">I use the
following
function to read a date from a Libre Office dbase file.
The field is
stored as</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">a string, ie
'04/08/2016'. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">function
db_date(const dog_base:tdbf;const
t_field:string):tdatetime;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">var
test_date:tdatetime;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">test_bool:boolean;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">test_string:string;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">begin {starts
function db_date(const dog_base:tdbf;const
t_field:string):tdatetime;}</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">
test_bool:=dog_base.FieldByName(t_field).Value<>null;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"> if test_bool
then test_date:=dog_base.FieldByName(t_field).AsDateTime</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"> else
test_date:=now;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">
result:=test_date;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">end; {ends
function
db_date(const dog_base:tdbf;const
t_field:string):tdatetime;}</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">I am running
lazarus
1.6, on both Windows 8 and Linux Mint 17. The above
function works
fine on the Windows 8 box, but on the Linux Mint box, I
get the
following error: “04/08/2016” is not a valid date format.
Why
does it work on Windows but not Linux? How can I rewrite
it to work
on both? </p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset>
<br>
</blockquote>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>I think thats due to "locales" defined the right way on Windows,
but differs on Linux.</p>
<p>Have a look at:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/dateseparator.html">http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/dateseparator.html</a><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
</body>
</html>