[fpc-devel] NowUTC in the RTL

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:

> 2. Placy a dummy routine which returns 'now' in sysutils.inc
> {$IFNDEF FPC_HAS_NOWUTC}
> function NowUTC : TDateTime;
> 
> begin
>   Result:=Now;
> end;
> {$ENDIF}

IMO the dummy routine should return some error value, e.g. zero or NaN, 
that makes it clear to the user that something's wrong with that 
function. Else nobody will ever notice and update the implementation.

DoDi