An item of type DATE is a series of eight single-byte numeric digits that reflect a specific calendar date.
// March 15, 2005 F2 F0 F0 F5 F0 F3 F1 F5
The internal hexadecimal representation of an example value is as follows if the item is on a workstation environment like Windows® 2000, which uses ASCII:
// March 15, 2005 32 30 30 35 30 33 31 35
An item of type DATE can receive data from and provide data to a relational database.