Re: ODBC dates

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Well, if you got {204,7,6,0,29,0} it would have made perfect sense to me.=
  In that case, the numbers are in low-high pairs, which is a common way to=
 store 16 bit numbers in a byte-addressable computer.
7*256+204=3D1996
0*256+6=3D6
0*256+29=3D29
Maybe the base date is not year zero.

Louis.

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On 10/2/2003 at 1:42 PM George Walters wrote:

>I'm using Matt's ODBC wrapper and have a question about Data base dates.
>The code below fetches a date as {201,7,6,0,29,0}
>
>when the database date is "1996-06-29"

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