On 22 Dec 2004 at 16:44, Greg At ACD wrote:

>Or, just return the whole thing as a string, and let me parse it. Even
>that would do the trick for me.

IMHO, integers are easier to parse than strings, that's why I work
with native ISC_TIMESTAMP. But if you want string, you can ask FB for
strings either through CAST() in SQL statement or "data coercion"
mashinery in API. But, once again, I prefer integers.
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SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.