[Gambas-user] Possible CDATE issue Latest version

[Brian G]

Yes, it has worked for a long time, and just this week fails.
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Brian G Friday, 18 November 2022, 02:35PM -08:00 from Jussi Lahtinen  jussi.lahtinen at gmail.com :

>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().
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>Jussi
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>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.
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>>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
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>>I ran the following script to test. This issue popped up in some of my apps
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>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>#!/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
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>>public sub main()
>>    Print "Hello world                \t"; CDate(Now)
>>    Dim getdate As New Mydate
>>    getdate.thedate = "cdate(now)"
>>    getdate()
>>end
>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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>>"Failure is the key to success; 
>> each mistake teaches us something"  .. Morihei Ueshiba
>>Brian G
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