Subj : date format ideas
To   : Ken Bowley
From : Vince Coen
Date : Thu Oct 06 2016 06:42 pm

Hello Ken!

Wednesday October 05 2016 18:52, you wrote to me:

 > On 2016-10-05 09:56:28 -0700, Vince Coen wrote to Ken Bowley:

 >> Would have thought that the Linux standard date format of YYYYMMDD
 >> can be
 > used
 >> for all. Then only convert for display subject to LC settings
 >> (sysop) or for language settings for bbs users (or there again just
 >> the LC one only).

 > 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.

 >> Unix has a date and a date/time construct in C that has been in use
 >> a very long time that can be used for the storage of such.

 > agreed.

 >> My applications when updating all use this form and only o/p to
 >> display or pronter based on users system settings via LC_TIME.






Vince

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