[Lazarus] DateDif function needed

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:

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> Am 2013-11-09 16:54, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
>> On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
>>> That would be a real performance hit (i.e. when sorting by date)
>>> if you have stored dates in year, month, day... format.
>>> Each comparison then needs multiple convertions each time.
>> Not if you store everything as a DateTime and use that. The format is such 
>> that it sorts naturally.
>
> Storing dates as floats has a lot of drawbacks.
> It's inaccurate, you always need a starting date and get other problems.

Can you prove this statement ?

I use this type since more than 15 years, never experienced a glitch.

Of course, I didn't have to represent stardate XYZ.NMO, but in my opinion, TDateTime is usable for 99,99% of all use cases.

Michael.