RE: OLE and Outlook

2001-12-18 Thread Peter Eisengrein
> -Original Message- > From: Morse, Richard E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 18 December 2001 15:33 > To: 'Wells, Doug'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: OLE and Outlook > > > My guess is that you are getting epoch dates -- that is, &

RE: OLE and Outlook

2001-12-18 Thread Morse, Richard E.
My guess is that you are getting epoch dates -- that is, offset in seconds from the computer's epoch. You can test this by getting the date, then printing the value of scalar(localtime($date_val)) which will attempt to figure out the date from the epoch. Note that Access may use a diffe

Re: OLE and Outlook

2001-12-18 Thread Matt Prigge
I dont have Outlook on this machine, so I cant test it, but my guess is that youre probably dealing with an OLE Variant datatype. Read the Win32::OLE::Variant documentation and see if that gets you anywhere. Sometimes just adding 'use Win32::OLE::Variant' at the top of the script will make it work