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|    Vince Coen to Ken Bowley    |
|    date format ideas    |
|    07 Oct 16 23:59:31    |
      Hello Ken!              Thursday October 06 2016 19:56, you wrote to me:               > 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?              12 might be a tad tight :              How ever for the date only more than enough the time stamp go some where else                                    Vince              --- Mageia Linux v5/Mbse v1.0.6/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.501-b20150715        * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)    |
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