MapInfo properties are interpreted differently post-GDAL update

[jng]

I have been playing around with the OGR provider in FDO Toolbox with some sample MapInfo data, and I have noticed some strange behaviour as a result of the GDAL upgrade from 1.4 to 1.6

Using the last FDO 3.4 pre-beta release (with bundled GDAL/OGR 1.4)

• Any property named UFI_CREATED or PFI_CREATED is a string property

Using the FDO 3.4 beta 1 release (with bundled GDAL/OGR 1.6)

• Any property named UFI_CREATED or PFI_CREATED is now a DateTime property which can potentially screw up on any feature reader calls to GetDateTime() because there is nothing in that particular property that can be parsed into a DateTime

Perhaps the updated GDAL/OGR library might have gotten smarter with respects to MapInfo or the OGR provider made some assumptions that no longer apply?

[jng]

MapInfo test data

[jng]

It's definitely something with the OGR library as the data now reads fine under FDO 3.6