Binary Format of Timestamp

Hi all,

I have a timestamp in a database that is beeing
returned in pgAdmin as "2005-06-21 11:21:47", exactly
as entered. When i retrieve the field via PQgetvalue i
get 8 bytes worth of data that i can not interpret.
ColumnType is TIMESTAMPOID, and the field content is
binary, size is 8 bytes, also all as expected.
I expect the timestamp format to be a float8 type
containing the seconds elapsed sind the 1.1.2000. This
should roughly be something around 172668107, give and
take a few timezone adjustments. What i get back from
PQgetvalue is the following array of bytes:

0: 0x00
1: 0x00
2: 0x9d
3: 0x0a
4: 0x6d
5: 0x2e
6: 0x88
7: 0xc0

Handling these bytes like a double (i.e adjusting them
for network byteorder), returns a value of
8.530937980114e-310#DEN.
But no matter how i order these bytes, i cannot make
sense of them.

Platform is Win32, Postgres was installed from binary
distribution. Does anyone have a hint ?

Many thanks in advance,

Joe








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