Re: Time in seconds

Posted in 1998

Tony Tyrwhitt-Drake — Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:45:11 -0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Lee Wan Ling wrote in message <34FBFB2C.43FFF647@memo.ericsson.se>... >Hi there, > I'm trying to get the current date in seconds format. Anyone >knows how I can do that? If you retrieve a date field from the database into a numeric variable you will find that you get a number representative of the date....the value of this will vary according to the precision of the date field and the type of numeric variable. Suggest you experiment to get the value you need.