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

If you search on Google for that date, you'll find all sorts of info. In a 
nutshell, this calendar was basically dictated by Pope Gregory.

Matt

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From: Joe Lee [mailto:LeeJD@xxxxxx]
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Introduced where, I seem to remember that it took well over a century
for it to be generally adopted. Figuring out what a given date from that
time period really means is interesting at best. :)

Joe Lee

>>> Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxx 01/11/2005 12:37:23 >>>
October 14, 1582 is when the Gregorian calendar was introduced.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Lee [mailto:LeeJD@xxxxxx] 
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4713 BCE? why not 4712 or 4714? For that matter why October 14, 1582?
At
least the Unix date time values with a base of January 1, 1970 makes
some sense, but who came up with these other base dates, and why?

Joe Lee

>>> cozzi@xxxxxxxxx 01/11/2005 12:18:06 >>>
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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