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   Ken Bowley to Vince Coen   
   date format ideas   
   06 Oct 16 19:56:13   
   
   On 2016-10-06 11:42:00 -0700, Vince Coen wrote to Ken Bowley:   
      
   (^--- side note to self, adjust for senders TZ)   
      
   >  > 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.   
      
   But is 12 bytes enough to store the time construct AND LC_TIME information?   
      
   Ken   
      
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