[Klug-general] The date as a number

[Jeremy King]

This comes from MS Excel in history.  01 Jan 1900 is day 1 and 31 Dec
1899 is day 0.
The date is stored as a number internally and is rendered to the user by
formating the field as a date.

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 09:46 +0100, J Subs wrote:
> I'm working in OpenOffice.org and the date is represented as a number 
> (eg 39904 is Wednesday, April 01, 2009). Is there a lookup table 
> somewhere I can find this information? And what's it known as, in 
> computer parlance? Something like Unix time?
> 
> thanks, Jake
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