| Subject | RE: [ib-support] Date Format in IB |
|---|---|
| Author | jackie |
| Post date | 2002-10-31T09:42:55Z |
> -----Original Message-----Oh gosh it gets weirder....
> From: Ann W. Harrison [mailto:aharrison@...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 2:17 AM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com; ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [ib-support] Date Format in IB
>
>
> 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.
jackie