EncodeDate

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

Declaration

Source position: datih.inc line 125

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

must be between 1 and 31.

Errors

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

See also

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.