Getting current date/time Mac OS total seconds

[jda]

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>-- How much seconds passed since 01.01.1900
>SELECT datediff( '1900-01-01 00:00:00', now(), 'second' )
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Hi Ivan,

A followup. I'm storing the total seconds in my db in a varChar 
field. I don't see a way to convert a string to a number (a double in 
this case). Can Valentina SQL do this?

Thanks,

Jon