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Reference for unit 'sysutils' (#rtl)

EncodeDate

Encode a Year,Month,Day to a TDateTime value.

Declaration

Source position: datih.inc line 117

function EncodeDate(

Year: Word;

Month: Word;

Day: Word

):TDateTime;

Description

EncodeDate encodes the Year, Month and Day variables to a date in TDateTime format. It does the opposite of the DecodeDate procedure.

The parameters must lie withing valid ranges (boundaries included):

Year: must be between 1 and 9999.
Month: must be within the range 1-12.
Day: msut be between 1 and 31.

Errors

In case one of the parameters is out of it's valid range, an EConvertError exception is raised.

Example

Program Example11;

{ This program demonstrates the EncodeDate function }

Uses sysutils;

Var YY,MM,DD : Word;

Begin
  DecodeDate (Date,YY,MM,DD);
  WriteLn ('Today is : ',FormatDateTime ('dd mmmm yyyy',EnCodeDate(YY,Mm,Dd)));
End.

EncodeTime		Encode a Hour,Min,Sec,millisec to a `TDateTime` value.
DecodeDate		Decode a `TDateTime` to a year,month,day triplet

EncodeDate

Declaration

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