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Date
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<div class="black"><font size="-2"><b>Syntax</b></font></div>
<pre class="syntax"><b>DIM</b> Var <b>AS</b> <b>Date</b></pre><p>

This native datatype represents a date & time value.
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Dates are stored internally as a couple of integer numbers:
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<li>The first is the number of days since the <a href="../../def/gambas+en">Gambas</a> epoch, a arbitrary day about 8000 years B.C.
<li>The last is the number of microseconds since midnight.
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Date are stored in UTC. They are converted to local time only when being displayed.
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Dates can be converted to numbers. Then the number returned is the number of days stored internally and the fraction of day represented by the number of microseconds.
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<div class="gray"><font size="-2"><b>Example</b></font></div>
<pre class="example">PRINT Now;; &quot;-&quot;;; CFloat(Now)
<hr>07/13/2005 02:20:08 - 2485669.138981</pre>
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<hr><b>See also</b><br>
<a href="../type+en">Datatypes</a>&nbsp;

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