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| Description |  | The ReplaceDate function updates the date part of a TDateTime variable DateTimeVar with the date part of another TDateTime value NewDateValue without affecting the time. |  |  |  | Related commands |  | 
| DecodeDate |  | Extracts the year, month, day values from a TDateTime var. |  
| DecodeDateTime |  | Breaks a TDateTime variable into its date/time parts |  
| DecodeTime |  | Break a TDateTime value into individual time values |  
| EncodeDate |  | Build a TDateTime value from year, month and day values |  
| EncodeDateTime |  | Build a TDateTime value from day and time values |  
| EncodeTime |  | Build a TDateTime value from hour, min, sec and msec values |  
| RecodeDate |  | Change only the date part of a TDateTime variable |  
| RecodeTime |  | Change only the time part of a TDateTime variable |  
| ReplaceTime |  | Change only the time part of a TDateTime variable |  |  |  | 
| Example code : Change the date without changing the time |  | var myDateTime, newDate : TDateTime;
 
 begin
 // Set the date to 29/10/2002 at 12:34:56
 myDateTime := EncodeDateTime(2002, 10, 29, 12, 34, 56, 0);
 WriteLn('The starting date/time = '+DateTimeToStr(myDateTime));
 
 // Now change the date portion without touching the time
 newDate := EncodeDate(1957, 02, 18);
 ReplaceDate(myDateTime, newDate);
 WriteLn('The new date/time = '+DateTimeToStr(myDateTime));
 end;
 
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| Show full unit code |  | The starting date/time = 29/10/2002 12:34:56 The new date/time      = 18/02/1957 12:34:56
 
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