[Gambas-user] Possible CDATE issue Latest version

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Are you sure this has worked before?
By quick look I guess it is about how Gambas does the conversions
internally, print uses Str() and maybe that "ddate =" or uses Cstr().


Jussi


On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 11:28 PM Brian G <brian at westwoodsvcs.com> wrote:

> With the latest version of gambas, I am getting the strangest issue, I
> dont understand, not sure if its a bug
> cdate returns different values if called with a class public variable.
> Locks like possibly like in the last case
> its return the gmt time.
>
> Hello world                     11/18/2022 11:30:56
> CDATE(now)                      11/18/2022 11:30:56
> Eval("cdate(now)                11/18/2022 11:30:56
> Try ddate = Eval(thedate)       11/18/2022 19:30:56.895
>
> I ran the following script to test. This issue popped up in some of my apps
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> #!/usr/bin/env gbs3
> class mydate
> ' Gambas class file
> Public thedate As String
> Public Sub _call()
>     Dim ddate As String
>     Try ddate = Eval(thedate)
>     Print "CDATE(now)                \t"; CDate(Now)
>     Print "Eval(\"cdate(now)         \t"; Eval("cdate(now)")
>     Print "Try ddate = Eval(thedate) \t"; ddate
> End
> end class
>
> public sub main()
>     Print "Hello world                \t"; CDate(Now)
>     Dim getdate As New Mydate
>     getdate.thedate = "cdate(now)"
>     getdate()
> end
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> "Failure is the key to success;
>  each mistake teaches us something"  .. Morihei Ueshiba
> Brian G
>
> ----[ http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/netiquette ]----
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.gambas-basic.org/pipermail/user/attachments/20221119/f36a43c4/attachment-0001.htm>