>Gregory,
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>>DateTime variables are stored as double where the day number is the int part and the fpt part is # of seconds/86400
>>If you do the same in C, you get similar results
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>This is not quite true for VFP. VFP datetime values are stored as 8 byte values.
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>The high order 4 bytes are integer days since some aribitrary day around 4700 BC.
>
>The low order 4 bytes are integer milliseconds since midnight.

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David,

I think you're both right. Gregory refers to the format datetime values are stored in the memory. You're to the format in the table.