[fpc-pascal] Converting date formats

[Ryan Joseph]

> On Oct 3, 2020, at 10:37 AM, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> Do you ever read the documentation ?
> 
> You might then have read why the above will never work.
> 
> You probably need this:
> 
> https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/rtl/dateutils/iso8601todate.html
> 
> or even this
> 
> https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/rtl/dateutils/scandatetime.html
> 
> If you need full timezone handling, then there are no such routines in the
> RTL. However, there is somewhere a package (I believe it is mentioned in the
> wiki) that handles timezones and whatnot.

I have no idea about dates and where to find these functions in the RTL. I just saw the date at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339. 

What do those links say about it not being possible? ISO8601ToDate seems to work if I change the decimal representation of the seconds to an integer.


Regards,
	Ryan Joseph