Date support for old dates & function 'cross call'

[tony]

Hi,

I think two things would be nice to have:
--------------- Date support -------------------
date = ParseDate("%yyyy", "1983")
Debug date

date = ParseDate("%yyyy", "1933")
Debug date
--

The date library doesn't support years before the 1970's (I suppose), which is a real pain.

--------------- Date support -------------------
Procedure a()
b()
EndProcedure

Procedure b()
a()
EndProcedure
--

Well not exatcly that, because it would cause an infinite loop, but something like C's prototypes, that would allow to call a procedure that hasn't been defined yet.

Tony

[Pupil]

Well not exatcly that, because it would cause an infinite loop, but something like C's prototypes, that would allow to call a procedure that hasn't been defined yet.

You mean 'Declare'?

[tony]

tony slaps himself around with a big trout. 'Declare' is what I was looking for. Any idea about the date business?

[Pupil]

tony slaps himself around with a big trout. 'Declare' is what I was looking for. Any idea about the date business?

You would have to create your own date parser and use API to get the time from that..

For more info see API functions:
'SystemTimeToFileTime', 'FileTimeToSystemTime'
and check out the structures:
'SYSTEMTIME', 'FILETIME'

*Edit: FILETIME doesn't support dates earlier than January 1, 1601.

[Fred]

date = ParseDate("%yyyy", "1983")
Debug date

This already works:

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date = ParseDate("%yyyy", "1983") 
Debug FormatDate("%yyyy", date)

[tony]

Yep, but this one doesn't:

date = ParseDate("%yyyy", "1929")
Debug FormatDate("%yyyy", date)