Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 09/29/14 11:33

laurenq uantrell (laurenquantrell@hotmail.com) writes:
> On the client side, it's pretty simple since date() remains in the
> chosen format as long as I never format it, so Nov.29, 2005 remains
> 29/11/2005 or 11/29/2005 depending on the regional format - the
> DATEDIFF on the client side will always calculate correctly. What I
> need to do is to translate the client date to UTC/GMT and pass that as
> an integer to the server to handle the time zone differences as I have
> shown below:

Or just pass it as a parameter to your queries, and the client API
will convert the date to a binary format. (Which accidently is based
on the number of days since 1900-01-01.)

Your diff stuff sounds overly complex to me.


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