RE: Date field's and their file space usage.

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I know/knew about the scaliger number but didn't want to use big words.
<vbg>

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Subject: RE: Date field's and their file space usage.





> Date fields are all stored internally as a 4-byte integer. The value
stored
> is the number of days since January 1, 0001 or October 14, 1582, I'm not
> sure which it is.

A minor point but date fields are actually stored using Scaliger numbers
which have a base of January 1 4713 BCE.

October 14 1582 is the base date for Lilian numbers which are used by the
ILE CEE Date APIs.

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