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Encodedate - build a tdatetime value from year, month and day values sysutils unit

function EncodeDate ( const Year, Month, Day : Word ) : TDateTime; Description The EncodeDate function generates a TDateTime return value from the passed Year, Month and Day values. The permitted parameter values are : Year = 0..9999 Month = 1..12 Day = 1..31 (depending on month/year) If you exceed these values, an EConvertError is raised. Notes The time value for the TDateTime is always set to 00:00:00.00 Related commands DecodeDate Extracts the year, month, day values from a TDateTime var. DecodeDateTime Breaks a TDateTime variable into its date/time parts DecodeTime Break a TDateTime value into individual time values EncodeDateTime Build a TDateTime value from day and time values EncodeTime Build a TDateTime value from hour, min, sec and msec values Example code : Assign a date to a TDateTime variable var myDate : TDateTime; begin // Set my date variable using the EncodeDate function myDate := EncodeDate(2000, 02, 29); LongTimeFormat := 'hh:mm:ss.zzz'; // Ensure that MSecs are shown ShowMessage('Date set to '+DateToStr(myDate)); ShowMessage('Time set to '+TimeToStr(myDate)); end; Show full unit code Date set to 29/02/2000 Time set to 00:00:00.000