Stalking the wily 8-byte DATETIME !!

2003-03-18 Thread Paul DuBois
Pursuant to last week's discussion of why, if DATE and TIME each take three bytes, does DATETIME take eight bytes, I found the following in the internals.texi document: @strong{DATE} @itemize @bullet @item Storage: fixed-length series of binary integers, always three bytes long. @item Example: a

Re: Stalking the wily 8-byte DATETIME !!

2003-03-18 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 18 Mar 2003, at 10:49, Paul DuBois wrote: Pursuant to last week's discussion of why, if DATE and TIME each take three bytes, does DATETIME take eight bytes, I found the following in the internals.texi document: Thanks for tracking that down. I spent a little while looking in the source