[Babase] Is Psion wierd or just Foxpro?

Catherine Markham amarkham at princeton.edu
Mon Dec 19 14:55:30 EST 2005


Hi Karl,

Leah manages the Psion data, so probably best that she check things out 
for you.  Aside from training with Daphne, I haven't had that much 
experience with it.

Catherine


Karl O. Pinc wrote:

> Cathrine,
> 
> Would you please look at some of the raw Psion data
> files and check something for me?  I notice that there
> are some FoxPro Datetime columns with that have a
> .999th of a second.  I suspect this is an oddity
> of the Foxpro datetime representation and that the
> Psion's really are supplying whole seconds, but would
> like to go back to the primary source and check.
> 
> I suppose it could also be the utility that I'm using
> to convert out of foxpro's data format.
> 
> Here's some Fpids that have a .999th of a second
> in their row's datetime column:
> 18
> 43
> 308
> 678
> 679
> 680
> 681
> 724
> 785
> 849
> 
> This does not need to be checked right now as I've figured
> out how to scroodle the data appropriately for the conversion,
> but I would like it checked so that I can be sure that when
> we upload the Psion data the right things are done in the future.
> (There are issues surrounding the transition from one minute
> to the next.)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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Catherine Markham
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