extract month from tdatetime

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Hello,
I want to extract the month from a datetime (the present month). I use the

Delphi

DecodeDate(date,year,month,day);
edit1.Text := datetimetostr(month);

but it gives me as a result the full date of 2/1/1900, it is weird I am using Delphi 7. Any help?

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Kyriakos

Posted 1-Mar-12 0:51am

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2012-03-01T02:39:00

Solution 1

Based on this information[^] it's doing what you asked. Try printing just the month value.

Posted 1-Mar-12 2:39am

Richard MacCutchan

smags13 · Answer 2 · 2012-04-27T22:11:00

You're almost there! You've already retrieve the month, but there is something wrong with showing the result.

A correct example would be

Delphi

procedure ShowMonth;
var
  Day, Year, Month: Word;
  Today: TDateTime;
begin
  Today:= Now;
  DecodeDate(Today, Year, Month, Day);
  ShowMessage(IntToStr(Month));//Month here is 1, 2, ..., 12
end;

The problem is from the call to DateTimeToStr which takes a TDateTime which is just a type of Double which means number of days since Dec 30 1899.

So, the call to DateTimeToStr will just give you some day around 1900, depending on the value of Month you have got.