>>What date is returned, 01/01/1900 or 12/31/1899? An offset? Do you mean they are stored as numbers, similar to what VFP does? Would that mean 01/01/1850 would be some negative number, internally?
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>>Dates are kind of a pain when you get down to the nitty gritty, with issues like the Gregorian calendar change, leap years, all that mess with traveling at the speed of light and how that affects time, etc. I'm always having to change the system dates on my computers when I get back from a cruise through the outer galaxy, you know. <g>
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>Still less pain than adjusting to inflation each time. That one can't be programmed, you also have to recalibrate your intuition, as early as when you catch a cab from 'drome to home... No matter how they brief you, you still have in mind "$1.00 for dozen eggs, OK, $2 for a gallon of milk, OK" and next time around eggs are $1.65 and the milk is $3.80... is it much or not? They never teach you that at the Academy.

Oh, well . . . uh . . . er . . . I have to confess to not having attended the Academy. I just built my light cruiser from an article in Make magazine. I'm not even sure which side to pass on, so if you see me out there, just watch out!