[fpc-devel] negative TDateTime values and MinDateTime

[José Mejuto]

Hello FPC,

Thursday, August 4, 2011, 10:11:16 AM, you wrote:

GG> On 4 August 2011 09:58, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>>
>> I've never heard that our DateTime routines support other calendars.
>> My guess is that they simply don't.

GG> Even so, does that mean we can't write software with FPC for use by
GG> Historian's where they might catalog artifacts with a date less that
GG> Year 100?  I haven't tested, but if so, that's terrible.

You need to use a dates library, usual simple date libraries like the
fpc/delphi rtl are plain wrong for gregorian calendar prior 1582, so
dates before (like the 100) mindate limit is meaningless. Just the
october 5 1582 does not exists. Even in gregorian calendar if you live
in Turkey the mindate value should be 1/1/1926. Dates and unicode
suffers the same localization problems.

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Best regards,
 José