At 12:39 AM 10/31/2002 +1100, Alan McDonald wrote:

>jackie,
>a date is a date is a date...

True.

>it gets stored as a floating point number

No, it gets stored a two long words, one representing the
number of days since 17 Nov 1858 and one representing
number of 100 nano-seconds since midnight.


Regards,

Ann
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