Hi all,
I am using ColdFusion to drag some data kicking and screaming out of a very
strange MS-based database. The date of birth field has values such as 716640
and 712672.
After a bit of mucking about I discovered that I can place this value in an
excel cell and change the format to date to
Hi Tom,
According to http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html:
In most modern programming environments, dates are stored as real
numbers. The integer part of the number is the number of days since some
agreed-upon date in the past, called the epoch. In Excel, today's date, June
