Trying to convert old Borland code.

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I've been tasked with converting old code created using Borland C++ Builder and creating something we can use again. I think I'm mostly on the right track except I'm stuck with some of the form stuff.

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double startTime = (int)(Form1->DatePickerStart->Date.Val) + Form1->ExtractDays(Form1->TimeEditStart->Text);

I'm having trouble figuring out what this double will look like. I tried just taking a date time and converting it to ticks but that didn't work.

Can anyone read this?

DatePickerStart is just a calendar date picker, and Time Edit Start is just a time selector. But converting the date to an int and adding the time converted to days and making it a double seems weird to me and I can't just picture what this is creating. An example would be helpful I think

Posted 28-Mar-12 7:25am

Zebre

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Hi,

It has been a long time since I used the Borland compiler but I believe the double returned from the date picker was identical to the double within the COleDateTime[^].

Best Wishes,
-David Delaune

Posted 28-Mar-12 9:58am

Randor

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Espen Harlinn 29-Apr-12 12:54pm

Right :-D

Solution 1

If it created a double, try converting that back into a datetime and see if the result is what you expect. The debugger will come in handy here.

Posted 28-Mar-12 8:32am

#realJSOP

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User 59241 · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-28T13:31:00

Solution 3

To convert to time_t (unix time)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w4ddyt9h(v=vs.80).aspx[^]

TDateTime BorlandTime = somevalue;

time_t time_t_time = round((BorlandTime - 25569.0) * 86400);

25569 sets to Unix epoch 1/1/1970
86400 == seconds in day

Posted 28-Mar-12 13:31pm

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Zebre 2-Apr-12 11:43am

I ended up using your idea to create this function which worked for me.

double GetTimeTSecondsFrom(long ticks)
{
DateTime epoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
return (new DateTime(ticks) - epoch).TotalSeconds;
}

Thanks for the help!

[no name] 2-Apr-12 19:12pm

Glad it helped. You called it an idea but this is the exact conversion you asked for.

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