Обсуждение: Returning an integer from a date

I have a date field in a table, I want to create a function to manipulate this date, however I want the date to come to me as an integer.

Is this possible? Or do I have to get it as a char *string??
 
 

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Rick Dearman wrote:
>
> I have a date field in a table, I want to create a function to
> manipulate this date, however I want the date to come to me as an
> integer.
>
> Is this possible? Or do I have to get it as a char *string??
>

Get it in a binary cursor and you can get it as a julian date (centred
around 2000). I handle all my dates as integers.

Adriaan

At 12:51 +0200 on 29/03/1999, Rick Dearman wrote:


>
>   I have a date field in a table, I want to create a function to
>manipulate this date, however I want the date to come to me as an integer.
>
> Is this possible? Or do I have to get it as a char *string??

What kind of an integer do you need? You could have the "milliseconds since
epoch" kind of number quite easily. Or do you need a number such as
19990301?

Herouth

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