At 05:19 PM 16/01/2012, homerjones1941 wrote:

>I've searched past posts, but haven't been able to find solution.
>
>I have a Time FieldType in a FB 2.1 DB and have been unable to insert a time value into that field. I've tried the following (Note: I've resulted to hard coding the values to eliminate possible formatting issues caused by me):
>
> FieldByName('AlarmTime').Value := '4:30:00 PM';
> FieldByName('AlarmTime').Value := '11:30:00 PM';

Not a valid TIME literal. The format uses the 24-hr clock and takes the form
hh:nn:ss.nnnn or hh:nn:ss.nnn

If you don't care about sub-seconds, use zeroes there.

>Error message is '0.0 is not a valid Timestamp.'

If you are absolutely sure that column is TIME and not TIMESTAMP then I would guess you are using the (broken) old BDE. The last-ever was v.5.2 and the Dialect 3 date/time support still didn't work properly.

>If I omit the "PM" the error message is similar.
> FieldByName('AlarmTime').Value := '4:30:00';

It's a gamble assigning any date or time values to the Value property of a VCL parameter but in this case it's obviously not working because your interface (whatever it is) doesn't recognise that as time literal. If you want to persevere, I suggest you try one of the following:
FieldByName('AlarmTime').Value := QuotedStr ('04:30:00');
FieldByName('AlarmTime').Value := ''04:30:00''; // doubled apostrophes NOT double quotes

>Error Message is '693594. -1073258496 is not a valid Timestamp.'

And that's not a valid Firebird message, either.

>I've tried using TDateTime values with similar results.

Using AsDateTime???

./heLen