[WX24] Dates Solved!

Hi,

not long ago, one could handle dates like strings and strings like dates - as long as their internal builds were like YYYYMMDD

Now, they do not accept a string as a date and they don't accept a date as a string.

Lots of errors, lots of work ...

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Info: My Error: DateToInteger(..) has been fed with an empty date which causes an error now, but did not so before.

Kind regards,
Guenter Predl
office@windev.at



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/2019 05:30PM by gpredl.

Just looked at a spot of code that deals with this issue. Still works for me in version 24.

modtime1 is string =TimeToString(TimeSys(),"HH:MM AP")
modtime is string =DateToString(Today() , "MM-DD-YYYY")
modtimecomb is string = modtime + " " + modtime1

Also, your example is "YYYMMDD". 3 digit year?

Regards,
JimC



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/2019 03:26PM by JCarson.

Hi, no, it's just a typo, should read YYYYMMDD

Date arithmetics is not anymore what it used to be. Worked fine for many years, but

WithIn a procedure:

Procedure(PxInputDate is string, PxOutputDate is string, PxDays is 4-byte int ...)

MyInputDate is Date = StringToDate(PxInputDate,"YYYYMMDD") <= works
MyOutputdate is Date = IntegerToDate( (DateToInteger(MyInputDate) + PxDays) ) <= Error! Says: A Date must be an 8-digit string!

This one works:
MyOutputdate is Date = IntegerToDate( (DateToInteger(StringToDate(MyInputDate,"YYYYMMDD")) + PxDays) )

While dates and strings in correct format ("YYYYMMDD") could be freely intermixed until version 23, they insist on correct typing in v24 !

The funny thing (= ERROR) is that MyInputDate is already typed as a Date and needs a re-conversion from string to date in order to work correctly with DateToInteger(..) function!

Kind regards,
Guenter Predl
office@windev.at



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/2019 05:04PM by gpredl.

Hi Guenter,
the "assign issue" has been in WEBDEV at least since v21.
This was never a problem with WINDEV 21 - looks like PCSoft is adding this "feature" in newer versions of WINDEV also.
Probably because it makes "immigration" from WINDEV to WEBDEV a lot easier.

Regards
Steven Sitas

Hello,

I have a simple way of using dates in relation to the DateToInteger() function. I always test the date value with the DateValid() function before attempting to pass it to the DateToInteger() function.

Regards
Al