There is a Date type, but it doesn't support Time. Larry
*Allowable Input for dBASE Data Types:* Data Type Data Input C (Character) All OEM code page characters. D (Date) Numbers and a character to separate month, day, and year (stored internally as 8 digits in YYYYMMDD format). F (Floating point binary numeric) - . 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 N (Binary coded decimal numeric) - . 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 L (Logical) ? Y y N n T t F f (? when not initialized). Default mapping of ArcGIS geodatabase to dBASE Geodatabase Data Type dBASE Item Type dBASE Item Width Object ID N 9 Short Integer N 4 Long Integer N 9 Float F 13 Double F 19 Text C 255 Date D 8 Blob N/A N/A On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Sunburned Surveyor < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Larry, > > I didn't think about it that way. I was viewing the String as simply a > storage mechanism. I guess the root problem is that the underlying > file formats lack a good date type. > > I can't remember from my reading of the DBF docs. Does DBF support a > built-in date type? I'm sure that GML does... > > The Sunburned Surveyor > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Larry Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Could the Shapefile and GML writers/readers be modified to convert the > > >date to a String before it is written or read from the underlying > > >file? > > > > Sure, but how does that help? If a String format is good enough, then > you > > can just use that to start with. > > > > regards, > > Larry > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Sunburned Surveyor > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Larry, > > > > > > Could the Shapefile and GML writers/readers be modified to convert the > > > date to a String before it is written or read from the underlying > > > file? > > > > > > I realize this is no small task, but we could add it to our list of > > > things to do. :] > > > > > > The Sunburned Surveyor > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Larry Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > Hi Dante, > > > > > > > > JUMP actually supports entering the time in the Edit Attributes > table > > view > > > > of a Date field, but will only display it in the Feature Info HTML > view > > with > > > > Attributes showing. > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, I couldn't find a file format that would save the > time > > > > information. When you load either a JUMP GML or Shapefile back, the > > time > > > > information reverts to 00:00:00. > > > > > > > > Perhaps someone else knows a workaround. > > > > > > > > regards, > > > > Larry Becker > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Dante Fuster < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hello > > > > > I have a problem, the attribute DATE only show "yyyy/MM/dd", where > I > > > > > can modify so that it shows the date and the hour? or create a > new > > > > > attribute TIME (HH:mm:ss). > > > > > > > > > > greetings > > > > > > > > > > Dante Fuster > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > jump-users mailing list > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > jump-users mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > jump-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > > jump-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > jump-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users > -- http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/
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