Re: dates in pdb header

[Henk Jonas]

Dave,

nope, it isn't an endian issue. It's just the problem that the conduit-API is working with c-lib time_t values (starting from 1970) but PalmOS works with Macintosh time values (starting from 1904). As it seems, even the default backup conduit creates the desktop files with dates starting from 1970. But if you export your database from POSE you will get dates starting from 1904. It's just confusing. I haven't tried to install databases exported from POSE (with dates 1904) and such ones from the backup conduit (dates from 1970). I don't know if the install API will care about this problem or not...
And the FileFormat Spezification at PalmOS.com is wrong. Or is right for POSE but wrong for the backup conduit.

Henk

Dave Lippincott wrote:

Could it be an endian issue?  Are you calculating everything on the Palm or
one on your PC or calculator and comparing it to the result in your Palm app
without correcting for byte ordering?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henk Jonas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 1:07 PM
Subject: dates in pdb header

Hi group,

could someone explain me why all three dates in my pdb headers are
something around 0x3e3bcffb ? The docs say it shall be "the number of
seconds since 12:00 A.M. on January 1, 1904." 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.
Anybody can help me out?

Henk

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