--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Ann W. Harrison"
<aharrison@...> wrote:

>
> Jeff Lynn wrote:
> >
> > Now I still need to address the problem with text and later on

timestamnp.

> >
> Timestamp is an array of two 32 bit words, one containing the (signed)
> number of days since November 17, 1858 (long story) and the second is
> the (unsigned) number of 100 microsecond units (I think) since the
> beginning of the day. There are conversion routine to and from the tm
> structure.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Ann
>

Yes, I got it going now as I can fetch the timestamp value and display
it as yyyy-mm-dd hh:MM:ss format.

I am still has much to do as to need to play with parameter markers
for both input and output, describe the result set meta data. Once I
go thru these, then I can be sure Friebird meets my need.

so far, great database and thanks for all the postings.

jml