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echo: mbse
to: Ken Bowley
from: Vince Coen
date: 2016-10-07 23:59:00
subject: date format ideas

Hello Ken!

Thursday October 06 2016 19:56, you wrote to me:

 > 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?

12 might be a tad tight :

How ever for the date only more than enough the time stamp go some where else 




Vince

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