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Re: To Date or Not to Date... that is the question

On 18/12/2007, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Dave

Long time since your time in Uzbekhistan or wherever you used to be!
At least, I'm assuming you're the same guy!

Hi Vern, yes that is me though it was Kazakhstan.

DSPFFD actually kind of lies to us when giving the lengths of
dates/times/timestamps. It reports the external lengths - internal is
a different story.

I'm pretty sure that a date field in the database actually occupies
those 10 characters and it is a character representation whatever the
internal scaliger representation. This is the limiting factor.

Well, it's obvious I have too much time on my hands - am on vacation!!

Done rambling!

I think my main point that it is a technical discussion of the
implementation of dates affecting RPG on the i5 and is therefore on
topic whether it has obvious commercial relevance or not.


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