Hello Ken!   
      
   Wednesday October 05 2016 18:52, you wrote to me:   
      
    > On 2016-10-05 09:56:28 -0700, Vince Coen wrote to Ken Bowley:   
      
    >> Would have thought that the Linux standard date format of YYYYMMDD   
    >> can be   
    > used   
    >> for all. Then only convert for display subject to LC settings   
    >> (sysop) or for language settings for bbs users (or there again just   
    >> the LC one only).   
      
    > You may be a little disappointed to learn that in the user record in   
    > MBSE sDateOfBirth is stored as a string in DD-MM-YYYY format, although   
    > other dates (tFirstLoginDate and tLastLoginDate) are stored a int32_t.   
      
   Load of space for the unix C construct as it is stored in binary.   
      
    >> Unix has a date and a date/time construct in C that has been in use   
    >> a very long time that can be used for the storage of such.   
      
    > agreed.   
      
    >> My applications when updating all use this form and only o/p to   
    >> display or pronter based on users system settings via LC_TIME.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
   Vince   
      
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