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Re-2: vrf ADO Date BUG

Question asked by g.nied on Mar 31, 2005
Latest reply on Mar 31, 2005 by g.nied
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> So is it ADO or is it VEE?

I'm pretty sure its VEE.
ADO like VB and .Net uses the OLE Automation Date Format (OADate).
>From MDSN-Website:
"An OLE Automation date is implemented as a floating-point number whose value is the number of days from midnight, 30 December 1899."

If you use ADO in VB and read out the date field with
  R=Recordset("DateField")
and R being defined as a real value you can see that R is of the OADate format.
But doing the same in VEE gives us a real value that is in VEE Date Format ( number of seconds since 00:00 hours 1 January 0001 AD)
So there must be a conversion from OADate to VEEDate somewhere. And there is the bug! And this is VEE!
Interestingly if you do the following (senseless) operation inside VEE:
Recordset("DateField")=Recordset("DateField")
to read out the field value and write it back, no error occurs. Using a variable to store the readout sucks:
X=Recordset("DateField")
Recordset("DateField")=X
Here we add the current timezone offset when in daylight saving time (not 'time saving' as I wrote in my first mail )
Obviously the date conversion does not take place in the first instruction


> Or is it an April Fools joke? So Georg is replying to Georg as Andrew? And
> he's saying something about the file system when we're talking about a
> DbDateTime field in a database? I think we done been spoofered!
> -SHAWN-

Hehe, that confuses you? So you betray yourself being a Bot, huh?

No, as Andrew wrote, he had observed a different daylight saving time related effect regarding the file system. But that has nothing to do with this VEE bug.


Georg



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