Datediff differences in US and Europe

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 6/29/12 5:14 PM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:

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> The dates and times are stored as ulongs

right

> (as Mac dates).

Wrong

There is no any MAC or WIN here.

DATE and TIME values are converted into
  format-independent  ULONG - 32bit value.
       
We do not use any "relative to some magic date" tricks.

DATE is stored as is. ABSOLUTE value.  30 June 2012.
Yes, this means in the current our calendar.



 
> Jon
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>                     It was my understanding that Valentina ALWAYS stores date
> time information as raw unformatted numbers. Hence my reference  to the
> to_days and to_secs functions
> As always, I might be wrong

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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