[Babase] Is Psion wierd or just Foxpro?
Leah Gerber
lgerber at duke.edu
Mon Dec 19 15:01:20 EST 2005
Hi, I will do it.
Leah
Catherine Markham wrote:
> 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>
>> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>> -- Robert A. Heinlein
>>
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