Hi all,

I've got some old btrieve files(just the data, no structure file) to convert
to our systems. Using BTFiller I was able to retrieve most of the data,
except for dates. I've been trying with no sucess to understand how it is
stored...

Some samples(date and hexa values for the 4 bytes relative to it):

12/31/1999 BF 0A 31 01
10/02/2003 1A A6 31 01
01/01/1900 25 EB 21 01
01/01/1880 ED DD 1E 01


Any help would be VERY appreciated...

Tks
Rodrigo

Rodrigo:

The bytes are stored in Intel byte-swap order, so 'BF 0A 31 01' is really
'01 31 0A BF' which when entered as a hex value gives the integer value of
'19991231' which you can see is 1999-12-31.

HTH,
Martin.


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If you need to create DDF files or analzye the structure of your data
you can take a look at btsearch at www.nssdd.com. It can help you
build the DDF files.

Gil

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