As far as I know there is no way to do this, but I am going to ask just in case someone else knows how to do this. How can I declare a date as a const in Delphi? 

The only solution I have found is to use the numeric equivalent, which is **kind of a pain** to maintain because it is not human readable. 

```
const
  Expire : TDateTime = 39895; // Is actually 3/23/2009

```

What I would like to be able to do is something like this:

```
const
  Expire : TDateTime = TDateTime ('3/23/2009');

```

or

```
const
  Expire : TDateTime = StrToDate('3/23/2009');

```

So let me know if this is a feature request or if I just missed how to do this (yeah, I know it seems like an odd thing to want . . . .)