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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              --- Ken's Ruby JAM reader (jamlib 0.1.4)        * Origin: The Realm of Darkness |(623)907-2858| bbs.trod.org (1:114/485)    |
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