Date storage class type

I sent this last night but I dont think it got through. Here it is again.
Sorry if its a duplicate.

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I think I have missed something obvious. I am writting my first postgresql
C program that accesses a table with a date field. I do the request using
a DECLARE BINARY CURSOR. I have a few floats/ints etc that I get
float *o;
int   *v;

o  = (float *)PQgetvalue(res, i, HIO);
v  = (float *)PQgetvalue(res, i, HIV);

My problem is I cant seem to get a date back into a usable form. How do
I retrieve a date back using a binary cursor. What storage type does it
use?


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