>>>For my own information, does anyone know the format of the storage of a datetime value in a table?
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>>>I've look at this and can't discern how VFP is reading the value. It doesn't seem to be a FILETIME structure, nor a SYSTEMTIME structures.
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>>>Any one know this?
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>>Hi George,
>>It stores it as 2 integers. 1st part is Julian day number (sys(1)). 2nd part is milliseconds since midnight.
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>Cetin,
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>Thanks for the information. I'll look at that in the morning.
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>It does seem, however, that this wouldn't be the best way to do this. I realize that VFP datetime have a maximum resolution of one second. If they're two integers (WORDs) they're only 4 bytes. If they're two DWORDS, then they're 8 bytes. And if they're 8 bytes, then why not use a SYSTEMTIME structure? After all, it would make the functions like YEAR(), MONTH(), and DAY() faster.

Sorry I should say 32bit integers. Check my reply to myself that I forgot to CC.
Cetin