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Date conversions

• Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> May 26, 1999
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Hi:

Does anyone have a routine for converting dates in the
"Day of our lord Bill Gates" format, i.e. days counted
starting with 01/01/1980, into normal MM/DD/YYYY format?

Record  Actual date  BG day     bytes as stored
 1      01/01/1980        1     25 72 0 0 {37,114,0,0}
 2      01/02/1980        2     26 72 0 0 {38,114,0,0}
 3      02/01/1980       32     44 72 0 0 {68,114,0,0}
 4      01/01/1981      367     93 73 0 0 {147,115,0,0}
 5      12/31/1981      731     FF 74 0 0 {255,116,0,0}
 6      05/01/1999     7061     B9 8D 0 0 {185,141,0,0}
 7      05/02/1999     7062     BA 8D 0 0 {186,141,0,0}
 8      05/03/1999     7063     BB 8D 0 0 {187,141,0,0}
 9      06/01/1999     7092     D8 8D 0 0 {216,141,0,0}
10      12/31/1999     7305     AD 8E 0 0 {173,142,0,0}
11      01/01/2000     7306     AE 8E 0 0 {174,142,0,0}

These are snipped from some VBasic data files, with the
"Actual dates" typed in by me. I'll be getting new files
every day, which I must turn into reports.
It would be really nice to be able to read the dates!

Thanks, (please reply before 7092 ADBG)
Irv