Steve Batson mentioned this to All:
 SB> I am trying to write a program to manage my user base on my BBS. The BBS
 SB> software is called SpitFire and the Subscription date is defined in a
 SB> record as type Longint. I have tried several of the delphi date routines
 SB> with no success. Can someone give a small code example of how to decode 

 SB> date in this format?
Sorry, but that value could be interpreted as a date a hundred different 
ways. You're going to have to get more info from the author.  Or you'll have 
to reverse engineer the encoding by manually changing the value of the long 
integer and seeing how it affects the BBS program.
                                ...Gary Weinfurther
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