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   Message 8,159 of 9,834   
   Jim Hargan to Liz McGuire   
   Re: PLEASE HELP with CALC for MIN & MAX   
   13 Feb 07 01:09:52   
   
   From: noJimspam@omitThisHarganonline.com   
      
   On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:09:05 -0700, Liz McGuire wrote:   
      
   > Actually, 01 Jan 0000 is day 0, or maybe day 1, I'm not sure.  Rick's   
   > articles would probably answer this.   
      
   >> IIUC, Paradox does *not* do anything special with dates. It just converts   
   >> them to integers, and performs normal integer arithmetic. It counts (I   
   >> think) 30 Dec 1899 as Day 0   
      
   I was too lazy to write a four line script in Pdox, so I used Quattro under   
   the assumption that they both used the BDE. In Quattro, 30 Dec 1899 = 0.   
      
      
   Jh   
      
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