How do I convert an ISO 8601 string to a Delphi TDate?

Question

I can convert a Delphi TDate to ISO 8601 format easily using this:

DateTimeToString(result, \'yyyy-mm-dd\', myDate);

What\'s the idiomatic

Answer 1

For more flexibility, you could consider Marco van de Voort's scandate routine which handles your string in any format:

var
  D: TDateTime;
begin
  D := ScanDate('yyyy-mm-dd', '2011-07-11');

See final version (7kB .zip) as added to FPC.