Delphi DLL

Parse a Microsoft JSON Date (MS AJAX Date)

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Demonstrates how to parse a Microsoft JSON Date, also known as an MSAJAX date. Delphi DLL

uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, DtObj, JsonObject, CkDateTime;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
success: Boolean;
json: HCkJsonObject;
dt: HCkDateTime;
bLocal: Boolean;
dtObj: HCkDtObj;

begin
success := False;

// Parse Microsoft JSON Dates (AJAX Dates)
json := CkJsonObject_Create();

success := CkJsonObject_Load(json,'{ "AchievementDate":"/Date(1540229468330-0500)/"}');

dt := CkDateTime_Create();
success := CkJsonObject_DateOf(json,'AchievementDate',dt);
if (success <> True) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add('Unable to parse a date/time.');
    Exit;
  end;

// Show the date in different formats:
bLocal := True;
Memo1.Lines.Add('RFC822: ' + CkDateTime__getAsRfc822(dt,bLocal));
Memo1.Lines.Add('Timestamp: ' + CkDateTime__getAsTimestamp(dt,bLocal));
Memo1.Lines.Add('YYYY-MM-DD: ' + CkDateTime__getAsIso8601(dt,'YYYY-MM-DD',bLocal));

// Get integer values for year, month, day, etc.
dtObj := CkDtObj_Create();
CkDateTime_ToDtObj(dt,bLocal,dtObj);

Memo1.Lines.Add('year: ' + IntToStr(CkDtObj_getYear(dtObj)));
Memo1.Lines.Add('month: ' + IntToStr(CkDtObj_getMonth(dtObj)));
Memo1.Lines.Add('day: ' + IntToStr(CkDtObj_getDay(dtObj)));
Memo1.Lines.Add('hour: ' + IntToStr(CkDtObj_getHour(dtObj)));
Memo1.Lines.Add('minute: ' + IntToStr(CkDtObj_getMinute(dtObj)));
Memo1.Lines.Add('seconds: ' + IntToStr(CkDtObj_getSecond(dtObj)));

// Sample output:
// RFC822: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:31:08 -0500
// Timestamp: 2018-10-22T17:31:08-05:00
// YYYY-MM-DD: 2018-10-22
// year: 2018
// month: 10
// day: 22
// hour: 17
// minute: 31
// seconds: 8

CkJsonObject_Dispose(json);
CkDateTime_Dispose(dt);
CkDtObj_Dispose(dtObj);

end;