Convert field

I am having a bit of a problem. I have a date field that is comming from
a different platform as a float. I need to convert these records to
datetime or small datetime. Is their a Stored Procedure to do this in SQL
or what is the quickest way to do this?
Thanks>> I have a date field [sic] that is comming from a different platform as a floa
t. <<
You don't know that a column is not anything like a field!
You don't know that a row is not anything like a record!
You might be able to do a CAST(foobar AS DATETIME). the quickest way
is to keep temporal data in temproal columns.|||You need to find out the starting point, for inhstance, what does 0.5
mean? Noon of what day?
Suppose 0 means midningt of January 1st, 2000.
Use dateadd function to add days (the integer part of the float) to
that start date
Then use dateadd to add seconds|||I have to suggestions.
1. The code which is performing the transformation from the other platform
may be able to convert as it goes.
2. You can Cast the float to a datetime list this...
Declare @.Mydate Float
Set @.Mydate = Cast( 1.125 as Float )
Select Cast( @.Mydate as DateTime)
However, it will require that the float from the other platform is using 0
as the same Epoch of 1900-01-01 00:00:00.000 .
Regards
Colin Dawson
www.cjdawson.com
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> I am having a bit of a problem. I have a date field that is comming from
> a different platform as a float. I need to convert these records to
> datetime or small datetime. Is their a Stored Procedure to do this in SQL
> or what is the quickest way to do this?
> Thanks
>