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ABC for Delphi Year 2000 Compliance

The following information is a guide to obtaining the best performance from ABC for Delphi as we approach the new millennium.

To obtain the functionality described below you must upgrade to release 3.0.5, shipped on April 7 1998, or a later version. This release is a free update for customers currently using ABC Version 3.

Our components can be used in different ways in many different operating configurations and applications. Therefore we are unable to warrant any compliance or operability of our components with regard to the Year 2000. For details of our specific product warranties, please consult our License Agreement, attached at the end of this page. We recommend that you undertake your own compliance testing with any third party software product, including our own.

General

Most ABC components that allow display, entry or calculations using dates do so using the underlying capabilities of Delphi, the Borland Database Engine and Windows. In most cases this implies that the current century is applied whenever a two-digit year is entered. Display of two digit years is ambiguous and should be avoided in your PC configuration.

For more details of Inprise’s Year 2000 compliance, please refer to the Inprise Online Year 2000 Home Page

Date-Specific ABC Components

This describes the behaviour of specific components that have date functionality in ABC Version 3.

Some ABC components in release 3.0.5 of ABC for Delphi have been tested operating with dates before, at, and after January 1 2000. In this test they demonstrated consistent behaviour throughout the date range.

TLauncher

The TLauncher component allows dates to be set using subrange types of day, month and year.

Prior releases had a TYear type defined as 1..2050.

In release 3.0.5 this range is increased to 1..9999.

In all other date or day related behaviour, TLauncher relies on the underlying Delphi and Windows operating system functions.

TDBRangeEdit and TnpRangeEdit

These two components behave in the same way. They allow immediate range filtering by typing a closed or open-ended range in text, which is then applied to filter the display range of records using the current index of a table.

Prior releases have a problem with open ended date ranges (ie. typing "1/1/98-"). The closing date of the range was calculated at the end of the current century. This would cause dates in the next century not to display.

In release 3.0.5 the closing date of an open-ended range is calculated using 12/31/9999. In our test this correctly sorted and displayed a continuous range of dates across the turn of the century.

Please note that any two-digit year typed into this control in a date range is interpreted using the current century from Windows. Four digit years can be entered, for instance "12/31/1990-12/31/2010", or "31/12/1990-31/12/2010". Interpretation of these formats relies on the underlying Delphi, Borland Database Engine and Windows settings.

TnpRange

This component allows entry of a range filter in a dialog box, automatically showing start and end values of an index.

There is no specific ABC functionality applied to dates in this control. Date values are entered, formatted and displayed using the underlying Delphi, Borland Database Engine and Windows settings.

Tips for Year 2000 Performance

If you haven’t already done so, we recommend setting the Windows Regional Settings from the Control Panel to show four digit years.
Your Delphi applications can explicitly set date formats using the Date/Time formatting variables:

var ShortTimeFormat: string;

var LongTimeFormat: string;

You may want to size grids and other data entry controls to show a four-digit year by default.
We have found that date formats in SQL expressions depend very much on the underlying DBMS and sometimes on the DBMS client middleware. For Interbase we have found that formatting date strings as DD-MMM-YYYY provides an unambiguous international format acceptable to the database. Other DBMS’s may behave differently.
The Borland Database Engine has configuration parameters for dates. To set these on a single PC you need to run the BDE Administrator and go to the Configuration|System|Formats|Date parameters.

We can be contacted at support@obsof.com should you need specific advice or assistance in developing Year 2000 compliant applications.

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