At 05:15 AM 30/10/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>Hey thanks for the explanation.
>
>It's encouraging because the implication is that there is no need to
>change my application code - phew! (Once the problem in IBO is fixed
>of course!).
>
>In the meatime, if I do a temporary modification the
>EncodeStringToDateTime function in IB_Utils I assume everything will
>be OK?

Yes, it should be OK...I would have to delve in old code but I know (way
back then) I fixed it for my own apps by including a function in my own
utility unit to do the local decoding, and I called that function, not
Delphi's, to pre-process date strings from an edit box. Why I am so sure
that Jason did fix this at some point long ago is that it was a real
problem for me back then, in IBO 3. Delphi changed its behaviour wrt to
date strings at (AFAIR) Delphi 4. Previous to that, it was "same old
Borland problem" - none of the Date functions was locale-sensitive then.

Helen