[gdal-dev] Mapinfo TAB Files and DateTime

[Daniel Morissette]

Looks like the problem may be in the MITAB driver itself: DateTime 
support has been added for writing only but has been skipped for reading.

I have reopened ticket 2585 about this, but it will be at least a couple 
of days before we have time to work on it:

   http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2585

Daniel


Dale Harris wrote:
> I am using GDAL 1.6 Beta with VB.NET (through ogr_csharp) to read a TAB 
> file with a Date or a Date Time field and I can’t use the following to 
> get the date values (they are all 0):
> 
>  
> 
> .GetFeature(x).GetFieldAsDateTime(33, myyear, mymonth, myday, myhour, 
> mymin, mysec, mytz)
> 
>  
> 
> However if I use:
> 
>  
> 
> .GetFeature(x).GetFieldAsString(33)
> 
>  
> 
> I get “2008102600000”.
> 
>  
> 
> Also if I try to create a new file with a datetime field it builds ok 
> but the field has no values assigned to it.
> 
>  
> 
> Is this due to the csharp wrapper not yet supporting datetime fields in 
> Mapinfo?
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> **Dale Harris***
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> 
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Daniel Morissette
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