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echo: mbse
to: Vince Coen
from: Ken Bowley
date: 2016-10-06 19:56:12
subject: date format ideas

On 2016-10-06 11:42:00 -0700, Vince Coen wrote to Ken Bowley:

(^--- side note to self, adjust for senders TZ)

>  > You may be a little disappointed to learn that in the user record in
>  > MBSE sDateOfBirth is stored as a string in DD-MM-YYYY format, although
>  > other dates (tFirstLoginDate and tLastLoginDate) are stored a int32_t.

> Load of space for the unix C construct as it is stored in binary.

But is 12 bytes enough to store the time construct AND LC_TIME information?

Ken

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