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For many reasons you may need the installed BDE (Borland Database Engine) version. One of them (the main one probably) is that BDE versions are not always compatible with each other. Therefore you may want to use different code/components at runtime.
Use the code below to determine what version of BDE is installed on the system. [...]

To change the date format you have to launch the BDE Administrator and set the data separator and the preferred date format. This is set in a different way the standard Windows regional settings so you may want to look up the BDE help. Then use the following code in your project source file:

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