UTC datetime string to TDateTime

[WojTec]

There is sample datetime string in UTC:

Code:

UTC 2011-02-05 21:25:55

Is it routine to convert it to TDateTime? Or I must do it manually?

[bra]

You can use http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libra....ISO8601ToDate
There are a few other conversion functions in System.DateUtils that might be useful too.

[Der schöne Günther]

This is two steps:

1. Parsing the String into a TDateTime
2. Converting the TDateTime in UTC timezone to your local timezone

For Task 1, there is already a built-in routine if the String is a timestamp in ISO8601 format: ISO8601ToDate(..). This method can also automatically take care of converting to your local timezone or return UTC timezone.

But your example is not. A valid ISO8601 timestamp would look like
"2011-02-05T21:25:55Z"

If you're out of luck regarding ISO8601, I'd use regular expressions.

[WojTec]

Thank you guys! I did it classically (with lenght/pos/delete). Using RegEx will be better (for sure will be very simple, in two lines)?

[a.def]

Never in 2 lines. As already mentioned look here: How to convert to TDateTime an string formatted this way: 15h44m28s? [duplicate]

[WojTec]

Ok, thanks! Another question: how can I convert my datetime to ISO8601 with RegEx?

[a.def]

Decode your TDateTime.

DecodeDate - Extracts the year, month, day values from a TDateTime var.

[Der schöne Günther]

You don't need regular expressions if you just want to get the ISO8601 representation of a TDateTime. There's already a built-in DateToISO8601(..) method for that :-)