[Gambas-user] gb3: date/time reporting odd fractional value

[Kevin Fishburne]

According to some previous answers to my questions about performing 
arithmetic operations on dates and times, the fractional part of a date 
(cfloat[now] - fix[cfloat(now)]) represents the time of day and the 
integer part (fix[cfloat(now)]) represents the number of days elapsed 
since the beginning of time.

So if it's 12:00 PM then cfloat(now) should display x.5, meaning half 
the day has passed.

If I enter ?cfloat(now) in the immediate window I get something like 
2487839.71017654 even though it's 10:02 PM. If x.0 is midnight, x.5 is 
noon, etc., how is x.7 10:00 PM? Shouldn't 10:00 PM be something closer 
to x.916666674?

I thought at first it was because I was scaling time, but the immediate 
window proved that wrong (immediately!). Any insight appreciated as always.

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