Question

SysUtils.StrToDate('20/11/2012 7:05:14 PM') throws an excpetion. How do I get a TDateTime from that string?

Answer 1

To avoid this kind of issues you must use the StrToDateTime method passing a TFormatSettings value with the settings of the format of the string to convert.

var
  AFormatSettings: TFormatSettings;
  LDateTime : TDateTime;
begin
   AFormatSettings:=TFormatSettings.Create;
   AFormatSettings.ShortDateFormat:='dd/mm/yyyy';
   AFormatSettings.DateSeparator:='/';
   LDateTime:=  StrToDateTime('20/11/2012 7:05:14 PM', AFormatSettings);