Correct VarBstrFromDate for dates between DATE_MIN and 1601

Bill Medland billmedland at shaw.ca
Wed May 9 13:25:21 CDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 19:32 +0200, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Bill Medland <billmedland at shaw.ca> writes:
> 
> > The only solutions I see are:
> >
> > + Leave it as it is (and hard luck to anyone who uses dates in the range
> > 1/1/100 to 1/1/1601)
> 
> That's certainly the best way, unless we find an app that depends on
> these dates.
> 

Sage Accpac ERP

> > + Add support down in kernel32/ntdll to format dates in that range
> 
> That cannot work unless you find a way to do it through the public
> API. Adding private functions or flags is not acceptable.
> 
> > + Duplicate and morph sufficient date formatting up in oleaut32
> > specifically for this case
> 
> If none of the above work, then yes you have to do that.
> 
OK.  If that's what you insist on.

Bill





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