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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   
      
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