How do I convert an ISO 8601 string to a Delphi TD

Question

I can convert a Delphi TDate to ISO 8601 format easily using this:

DateTimeToString(result, 'yyyy-mm-dd', myDate);

What's the idiomatic way to do the inverse conversion? StringToDateTime() doesn't seem to exist.

Obviously I can do it the "hard" way by manually parsing the string and encoding the result, but that seems a poor choice.

Answer 1

USES Soap.XSBuiltIns;
...
Function XMLDateTimeToLocalDateTime(const Value: String): TDateTime;
begin
  with TXSDateTime.Create do
  try
    XSToNative(Value);
    result := AsDateTime;
  finally
    Free;
  end;
end;

Delphi XE3