Looks like the problem may be in the MITAB driver itself: DateTime
support has been added for writing only but has been skipped for reading.
I have reopened ticket 2585 about this, but it will be at least a couple
of days before we have time to work on it:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/
I am using GDAL 1.6 Beta with VB.NET (through ogr_csharp) to read a TAB
file with a Date or a Date Time field and I can't use the following to
get the date values (they are all 0):
.GetFeature(x).GetFieldAsDateTime(33, myyear, mymonth, myday, myhour,
mymin, mysec, mytz)
However if I use: