Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
Converting Date and Time Strings Into Numeric Representations
This section describes the Text Utilities routines that you can use to convert date and time strings into numeric representations:
- The
InitDateCachefunction initializes the date cache record, which is used by theStringToDateandStringToTimefunctions.- The
StringToDatefunction parses text for a date specification and fills in numeric date information in aLongDateRecrecord.- The
StringToTimefunction parses text for a time specification and fills in numeric time information in aLongDateRecrecord.
Subtopics
- InitDateCache
- StringToDate
- StringToTime