Helen,

After stepping thru the code in the "EncodeStringToDateTime" function
in IB_Utils it looks to me as if the actual exception is not raised
here but at the end of the "isc_decode_TDateTime" function instead.

The Year, Month, and Day variables in "EncodeStringToDateTime" all
contain correct values for my local date format, consequently the
"Result := EncodeDate( Year, Month, Day );" statement does not throw
the exception as I expected.

Looks like the problem might be beyond my limited skills to fix, I'll
leave it to the experts!

Regards,

Mark H (teamtlas)

> >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