[AccessD] [Fwd: Re: Date Field]

Hi Rocky

> Do you mean the 1/1/1970?  

Yes, as shown. That's a fixed date.

/gustav

>>> bchacc at san.rr.com 28-04-2006 14:00:36 >>>
Gustav:

Do you mean the 1/1/1970?  Or the value returned by the expression?

Rocky


Gustav Brock wrote:
> Hi Gary and Rocky
>
> Just a note: If possible, you should use a date value and not its string representation with DateAdd() even though the example uses a string:
>
> Format(DateAdd("s",[date],#1/1/1970#),"Short Date")
>
> It doesn't make much of a difference here but in other situations it might as the string will be converted to a date value using the local date/time settings. That will not happen for a date value.
>
> /gustav
>
>   
>>>> bchacc at san.rr.com 28-04-2006 04:01 >>>
>>>>         
> Gary:
>
> Works perfectly!  I'm using Expr1: 
> Format(DateAdd("s",[date],"1/1/70"),"Short Date") just to get the date 
> only so I can count the hits by date. 
>
> Thank you.
>
> Rocky
>
>
> Gary Kjos wrote:
>   
>> Hi Rocky,
>>
>> If the Unix Epoch date represents a number of seconds from a magic
>> point in time, how about if if you did a dateadd function with the
>> field containing the number of seconds to added the magic date with
>> the result being the date in date format from where you can store it
>> or do further fun stuff with it.. It would be something like
>>
>> OutputDateField = DateAdd("s", lngUnixEpochDateInput, "1/1/1970")
>>
>> Dateadd is described here...
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbenlr98/html/vafctdateadd.asp 
>>
>> That is what I would probably do anyway.