[Lazarus] Conversion from TField.AsDateTime to string

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Leonardo M. Ramé schrieb:

> To convert the JSON string to TDateTime, I use StrToFloat, then I
> show the result using:
> 
> FormatDateTime('YYYY-MM-DD', myDate);
> 
> On Linux I get: 2011-08-17 09:25:24
 > On Win32 I get: 34248-02-16 00:00:00
> 
> Why the difference?.

I'd guess that the time base is different for both OS, so that the float 
value is specific to the OS where the date was encoded. You can test 
yourself with a date set to 0.0.

If I'm right, dates should be stored as date strings, not as floats.

DoDi