Question

I am very much new to delphi and i tried the following code

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  myDate : TDateTime;
  day    : string;

begin
  myDate := EncodeDate(2002, 12, 31);

  day := LongDayNames[DayOfWeek(myDate)];

  ShowMessage('Christmas day 2002 is on a '+day);
end;

I have declared System.SysUtils in Uses section but still i am getting the error Undeclared identifier.

I am using Delphi XE3 17.0

Answer 1

In XE2 LongDayNames moved to TFormatSettings.
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE2/en/System.SysUtils.TFormatSettings.

So you could use:

day := FormatSettings.LongDayNames[DayOfWeek(myDate)];

FormatSettings is a not threadsafe global variable.

How to use it a intended you can see here