about date & time type

use the displayformat-property of the underlying TField

If you want to extract only the Date form DateTime use Trunc, and if you want to use Time form DateTime use Frac. But you can ignore it example:

var
  MyDate: TDateTime;
  MyTime: TDateTime;
begin
  MyDate:= Trunc(Table1.FieldByName('Reg').AsDateTime);
  MyTime:= Frac(Table1.FieldByName('Reg').AsDateTime);
  ShowMessage(DateToStr(MyDate));
  ShowMessage(TimeToStr(MyTime));

The same will be fine if you use :

  MyDate:= Table1.FieldByName('Reg').AsDateTime;
  MyTime:= Table1.FieldByName('Reg').AsDateTime;

But the case will different if you want to compare two times such as:

if MyTime > YourTime then ...

In this case you muse use Frac to do comparison without Date

Motaz

Date
FormatDateTime('mm/dd/yyyy', Table1.FieldByName('TheField').AsDateTime);

Time
FormatDateTime('hh:nn:ss', Table1.FieldByName('TheField').AsDateTime);

In the first paramater you is how it will be displayed. You can arrange to display in any manner you want it to.

Or use
  Table1.FieldByName('TheField').AsDate
and
  Table1.FieldByName('TheField').AsTime
for any further handling of dates & times...

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