> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan McDonald [mailto:alan@...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:40 AM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [ib-support] Date Format in IB
>
>
> jackie,
> a date is a date is a date... it gets stored as a floating point
> number not
> as a dd, mm, yyyy in some combo. It's an integer representing the
> days from
> 31 Dec 1899 (thereabouts) and the decimal is that fraction of the day in
> seconds.

Really...how weird!

> So the 19th March 2002 is not stored as 03 or 3 under your control. Your
> client application is in the only control of representing that
> month as 03.
> Just change your date settings to show MM rather than mm for the
> month part.

Thanks Alan will do some more homework on this.

jackie