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Replacetime - change only the time part of a tdatetime variable sysutils unit

procedure ReplaceTime ( var DateTimeVar : TDateTime; const NewTimeValue : TDateTime ) ; Description The ReplaceTime function updates the time part of a TDateTime variable DateTimeVar with the time part of another TDateTime value NewTimeValue without affecting the date. 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 EncodeDate Build a TDateTime value from year, month and day values EncodeDateTime Build a TDateTime value from day and time values EncodeTime Build a TDateTime value from hour, min, sec and msec values RecodeDate Change only the date part of a TDateTime variable RecodeTime Change only the time part of a TDateTime variable ReplaceDate Change only the date part of a TDateTime variable Example code : Change the time without changing the date var myDateTime, newTime : TDateTime; begin // Set the date to 29/10/2002 at 12:34:56 myDateTime := EncodeDateTime(2002, 10, 29, 12, 34, 56, 0); ShowMessage('The starting date/time = '+DateTimeToStr(myDateTime)); // Now change the time portion without touching the date newTime := EncodeTime(9, 45, 52, 0); ReplaceTime(myDateTime, newTime); ShowMessage('The new date/time = '+DateTimeToStr(myDateTime)); end; Show full unit code The starting date/time = 29/10/2002 12:34:56 The new date/time = 29/10/2002 09:45:52