Hi Henck,

> thank you for the offer, I will do, I'm sure :-)

You are welcome...

> "But when I approximate 100 years then I get 36524 days * 24 h/day * 60
> minutes/hour * 60 seconds/minute which is 3155673600 or in hexadecimal
> 0xbc17c200."
> So, you mean 0xbc17c200 is the right date for 1.1.2004? And 0x3e3bcffb
> is wrong, because it is something 1937?

Yes...

> But I have two palms with two user names andi n both home directories in
> the backup folder there are a lot of pdb's, coming directly from the
> handhelds. And I just checked two of them, saved_preferences.pdb and
> connectiondb.pdb and both have the date of 0x3d4151d9 and 0x3e3bcb2a.
> Are the dates wrong in both databases?

Yes, they are wrong...

> Or is just the assumption wrong
> that the dates are the seconds since 1.1.1904 or do I maybe calculate
> garbage?

You calculated right...

Try creating a Memo and hotsync MemoDB. Check modification date.
You will see that you didn't calculate garbage...
Use FileZ to check dates.

Adrian Nicolaiev
http://www.niconnect.com



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