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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