On 06/23/2011 02:46 AM, Benoît Minisini wrote: >> According to some previous answers to my questions about performing >> arithmetic operations on dates and times, the fractional part of a date >> (cfloat[now] - fix[cfloat(now)]) represents the time of day and the >> integer part (fix[cfloat(now)]) represents the number of days elapsed >> since the beginning of time. >> >> So if it's 12:00 PM then cfloat(now) should display x.5, meaning half >> the day has passed. >> >> If I enter ?cfloat(now) in the immediate window I get something like >> 2487839.71017654 even though it's 10:02 PM. If x.0 is midnight, x.5 is >> noon, etc., how is x.7 10:00 PM? Shouldn't 10:00 PM be something closer >> to x.916666674? >> >> I thought at first it was because I was scaling time, but the immediate >> window proved that wrong (immediately!). Any insight appreciated as always. > Date/time values are internally stored in GMT time.
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