[fpc-devel] DB Bug in 2.0.1?

[Tony Maro]

Jonas Maebe wrote:

>
> On 21 jul 2005, at 00:40, Tony Maro wrote:
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>> Can someone confirm the date issue for me?
>
>
> I can't confirm it, but I do want to mention that I fixed all  
> datetime-related routines for *nix platforms in sysutils a while ago.  
> They operated based on the supposition that the dates they get are in  
> Windows format, as opposed to the number of seconds since x/x/1970.
>
> Maybe some databases always store the date in Windows format and  
> maybe some database units counted on this bug... 

I wouldn't think so in this case - it's not just returning the wrong 
date, it's always returning the SAME wrong date, regardless of the value 
in the database table.  But I won't rule it out as a possibility.  I'll 
point Micha to this thread.

-Tony