title: pascal string to date
body: <p>Can someone tell me what's wrong with this piece of code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ShortDateFormat := 'dd/mm/yyyy';
  j:=StrToDate('05/05/1999');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I keep getting </p>
  
  <pre><code>An unhandled exception occurred at $000000000042FA33 :
  EConvertError : Invalid date format
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm using fpc.</p>