Birthdate

[mj585]

Hi ... sorry if this has been answered before.

I'm looking for a way to convert the birthdate used in the fifa database to a "proper" format.


I was looking around and saw that fifa ecp had something like that? ... can't find it anymore ... but that said, it's not exactly what im looking for.


What I'm actually looking for is what the value used in the database mean ... is it number of days?

I'm working on a bigger program (not really FIFA-related) and having that script online (like the one ive seen) wouldn't work, but rather knowing what it exaclty mean and a function to convert it into proper format will actually be very useful.

Thanks for your help, in advance.

 

[nutunited]

All dates in the game are stored as number of days since the start of the Gregorian calendar (15 Oct 1582)

Hope you don't mind Steve, thought i'd save you the hassle!

and here is where you can convert the number
http://www.fifaecp.com/calcdate.php

 

[mj585]

thank you

so it seems like its the number of days (because when im increasing by one day, the FIFA format increases by one) --and 15/10/1582 is "day 1"


thanks again ... i think i got it.

 

[StevePitts]

Hope you don't mind Steve, thought i'd save you the hassle!

No problem at all. It is always nice to see someone else using the forum search features

it seems like its the number of days (because when im increasing by one day, the FIFA format increases by one) --and 15/10/1582 is "day 1"

FWIW (which may well be absolutely nothing) I found it much easier to get my head around a slightly smaller value, so I subtract a fixed value from the FIFA base date to give a date based on 1 Jan 1900 instead. No huge advantage to it, except that as an old mainframe programmer I am always happy when I can store a value in a smaller space (the resulting base dates fit in a two byte unsigned integer rather than needing a four byte value)