Binary date to gregorian Date



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Re: Binary date to gregorian Date

Postby Akatsukami » Wed Nov 13, 2013 1:06 am

:roll: Do you know how to browse a data set displaying the data in hexadecimal?
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Re: Binary date to gregorian Date

Postby mail4rsb » Wed Nov 13, 2013 1:18 am

Is this what you are referring too?

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Re: Binary date to gregorian Date

Postby Akatsukami » Wed Nov 13, 2013 1:30 am

Well, these are certainly not ordinal (oft miscalled "Julian") dates. They could be reduced or Dublin Julian day numbers, but that leads to some rather odd interpretations. I don't think I care to draw this out any further.
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Re: Binary date to gregorian Date

Postby BillyBoyo » Wed Nov 13, 2013 1:53 am

mail4rsb,

It may be possible in SORT, but since your input is non-standard, we'd need to know how to interpret those values. We'd need to know what the Assembler program is doing.
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Re: Binary date to gregorian Date

Postby dick scherrer » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:08 am

Hello,

Might this value just be the number of days from some fixed date in the past?
Hope this helps,
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Re: Binary date to gregorian Date

Postby steve-myers » Fri Nov 15, 2013 7:01 am

Another idea that just occurred to me is the 16 bits are ordered like yyyyyyyddddddddd, where yyyyyyy is the year, though whether it starts in 1900, or so other year I won't try to guess, and ddddddddd is the day of year. This is just a variation on the method MS-DOS used to store the date in a directory entry. If my guess is correct, I doubt if sort can do the translation you want.
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