The magic of Perl has failed me, but I was comforted to learn that it was there.

I have a PerlScript ASP that is querying an MS Access DB. One of the fields is a date field, and it seems the PerlScript can't make any sense out of the data. Is there an incantation I can use to release the date?

I was comforted to know that Perl is doing magic to release the other data types. If I ask it to add or write $RS->Fields(0)->{Value} then it does so, since that field is a long integer. But if I ask it to write $RS->Fields(9)->{Value} it writes out the memory address of the scalar pointer. That field is supposed to be a date, represented in the DB in m/d/yyyy format.

I figure that date data is not represented as a string, but as some proprietary data, and as such, Perl can't understand it, or assumes it is another pointer, so it shows it to me. I explicitly dereference it and ask it to write ${$RS->Fields(9)->{Value}}. When I do that it writes a long string or numbers much like "155963932".

What is that? Is it epoch seconds? I haven't a clue.

-Travis

In reply to MS Access DB Date Field by THuG

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