Re: Request for Informix Date field description

Posted in 1997

William Harris — 25 Mar 1997 19:24:41 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <5guoc9$a2a@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, thabib@bob.zentropy.softaware.com says... >A date is stored as 4-bit integer that is the number of days since Dec >31, 1899... according to the Informix ESQL/C 7.1 manual.... may be (cough) That should read 4-byte integer. Four bits wouldn't have gotten them past January 15, 1900. :-) -- William Harris william@carsinfo.com