Converting Facebook created_time to TDateTime in Delphi

Question

I am using Facebook graph API in my application. Facebook API returns an array of objects as response. For each item in the array, there is an object created_time which denotes the time of post. I need to convert that datetime into Delphi TDateTime so that I can have mm/dd//yy hh:mm:ss format time.

ArrayItem:

 {
         "created_time": "2015-10-12T01:56:25+0000",
         "link": "http://exampleeeeee.com",
         "id": "349561906753_10154021323131754"
      }

By the way Facebook returns the datetime in other format as well but I am eager to learn this.

Answer 1

The date format is ISO 8601 and you can convert it using the XMLTimeToDateTime function in the XSBuiltIns unit.

uses
  XSBuiltIns;

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
var
  ISO8601StrA, ISO8601StrB: String;
  Dt: TDateTime;
begin
  ISO8601StrA := '2015-10-12T01:56:25+0000';
  Dt := XMLTimeToDateTime(ISO8601StrA);
  ISO8601StrB := DateTimeToXMLTime(Dt, False);
end;