On 27/04/2019 13:37, Rowan Collins wrote:
The only way I've seen dates stored as integers is as a number of seconds / milliseconds / whatever since some epoch, most commonly seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Use of a days count rather than a seconds count makes dates a lot easier to work with. 2 32bit numbers give a substantial day count along with either fractional time of day or alternatively a second count for the day. Genealogical data is substantially easier to manage as a day count which can be expanded in accuracy with a time count either viewed as integers or as floating point numbers ... leap seconds just get hidden in the processing.
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