Re: ##EMailNumber 01-WNY-5123108 Date From 8 byte MATTOD receiver to *DTSformat with API QWCCVTDT

From: <jmoreno@militarycars.com>
To: <Midrange-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 9:17 AM
Subject: ##EMailNumber 01-WNY-5123108 Date From 8 byte MATTOD receiver to
*DTSformat with API QWCCVTDT


> Hello all,
>
>    I am working with the following for the last few days and have not ben
> able to
>    convert the 8 byte receiver from the C / MI function, buitin function
> MATTOD
>    "Materialize Time of Day"  to some more readeable format. Particularly
> *DTS
>    that gives me microseconds pressision

If you simply treat the 8-byte value as a large unsigned integer
and divide by 4096 you get the microseconds since the beginning
of time (Aug 23, 1928, 12:03:06 pm). What do you need the micro-
seconds for? I hope that it is NOT as a seed to some random
number generator to generate "secure" keys for encryption,
see: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/ddj-netscape.html
for why not.



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