Hello Steve!
Saturday July 13 1996 16:41, Steve Batson wrote to All:
 SB> I am able to read several of the other fields ok and the date value
 SB> is pulled in ok, just can't decode the sucker!
one very usual way to store a date in a longint is called a "unix timestamp" 
and it is a 32 bit integer containing the number of seconds since midnight, 
new years' eve 1969 (i.e. number of seconds since jan 1st, 1970).
andreas
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