[H-GEN] time in C/C++

[Frank Brand]

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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Martin Pool wrote:

> 
> I'm sure you can find good calendar libraries in your favourite
> language.  It seems silly to reimplement it.  For financial applications
> the Mac-style "uint32 days since 1904" might be good, and it neatly
> avoids leap seconds altogether.
> 

Well yes, that is where this all started for me. I thought it would be easy to
find a library to give me the days between two dates and just re-use the code. I
have been surprised at how few I have been able to find. Maybe I have been
looking in the wrong places (every chance I have been as it is not something I
have had a l lot of experience doing). In fact I have stuffed about with it so
long it would have been much more efficient to write the function and forget it.
Guess I'm just a stubbborn old bugger...but it served a purpose...I've
increased my knowledge of some of the time functions which I have really never
had need to look at before.

It was a lot easier to get Datenumber() or whatever the built in function is in
VB

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Frank Brand
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