[fpc-pascal] Why has StrToDate() failing under FPC 2.3.1 (64bit)

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 20/10/2009, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>  It is documented:

and the documented example "ex19.pp" causes the same error!

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$ cp /opt/fpcdocs_svn/sysutex/ex19.pp ex19.pas
$ fpc ex19.pas
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.3.1 [2009/10/08] for x86_64
Copyright (c) 1993-2009 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for x86-64
Compiling ex19.pas
Linking ex19
19 lines compiled, 0.1 sec

$ ./ex19
ShortDateFormat d/m/y
20-10-09 : 20-10-09
An unhandled exception occurred at $000000000042D54F :
EConvertError : "05/05/1999" is not a valid date format
  $000000000042D54F
  $00000000004002A1
  $0000000000400424

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Regards,
  - Graeme -


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