Pre 1970 Dates

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Hello to All,

 

Is there a way to use dates that are before 1970? 

 
Judging from the fact that MQL's datetime counts seconds since Jan 1 1970, no. Why do you need those dates anyway? Not like there were any real Forex rates back then.
 

Hello enivid,

 

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my query. I figured that I would need to code my own date/time functions to support dates that go back further than 1970. While Forex data doesnt go that far back but stocks do and now that MT5 supports stock symbols I would have figured that the good folks at metaquotes would have realized that there will be a need for the basic date/time struct to handle dates that go back 100 years, their current date/time struct can handle dates up to the year 3000 well into the future. Seems to me someone over there wasnt thinking things through when they designed the date/time struct to be included into MT5.

EK 

 
Create an CI that read that historical data. Pretty easy to create this CI, and there's also one in mql5 market if you prefer to spend money.
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Hello phi.nuts

 

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my query. I have no idea what you are talking about. What is a CI?

EK 

 
Emerald_King:

Hello phi.nuts

 

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my query. I have no idea what you are talking about. What is a CI?

EK 

CI = Custom Indicator, EA = Expert Advisor, Script = Script.
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phi.nuts:
CI = Custom Indicator, EA = Expert Advisor, Script = Script.

Hello phi.nuts

 

Thanks again for commenting, but all I am looking to do is reference dates that are older than 1970 and get the number of days between dates.

 

EK 

 
Emerald_King:

Hello phi.nuts

 

Thanks again for commenting, but all I am looking to do is reference dates that are older than 1970 and get the number of days between dates.

 

EK 

Ups, that will be difficult to impossible things to do.
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