Most of the internal system dates in Time Matters are stored in the database as an integer. In fact the only dates stored as text are user defined date fields in the form styles.

There are several technical benefits to using integer based dates, primarily date math operations as well as an avoidance of the Y2K crisis. We'll skip most of the negatives since we cannot do anything about it (and I like to keep it positive). I want to focus on how to make something useful and human readable from this integer. I have therefore provided a simple converter at the bottom of the page here. For even more convenience we'll have a PDA version so you can pop it up on your Treo or Blackberry. I'll let you know when it's posted.

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