[fpc-devel] get/put in fpc

[Schneider]

Sven:

> At least on my desktop it works. Don't know if your sysadmins fixed it by
> now or if it's just my mobile browser that's buggy... -.-

It seems to be a mobile problem.  I can replicate it so it's not fixed
yet.

> And to answer the problem at hand: right now we don't support the TimeStamp
> type or the GetTimeStamp function. In FPC we have the Delphi equivalent
> which is the Now function which returns a TDateTime which in turn is a
> Double (a floating point type with double precision). In addition there is
> the FormatDateTime function that allows you to convert a TDateTime to a
> string with a formatting of your choosing. However both functions require
> unit SysUtils, but in ISO mode loading units is disabled... (though you can
> work around that by telling the compiler to load a unit using a command line
> switch)
> The Extended Pascal functions and the type shouldn't be that hard to add
> however (though we'd need to add an ExtISO mode to do it by the book ;) - or
> we could just add them to the System unit, then they are available for all
> modes, though that opens its own can of worms :/ ).

Thanks for considering these possibilities.

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
  Senior Investigator
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Center for Cancer Research
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