'Delphi does not infer TDateTime for local variables

I have a routine that fetches a TDateTime from a database. I fetch it like this in another routine:

var lCrmStartDate := self.GetCrmStartDate;

This results in lCrmStartDate being inferred as Extended, giving me all sorts of trouble.

I now fetch the date like so:

var lCrmStartDate : TDateTime := self.GetCrmStartDate;

and that works fine.

Can someone explain to me why the compiler infers Extended instead of TDateTime (which is the return type for GetCrmStartDate())?

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