Who knows what some stupid software can take for time? You need to supply more information on it. Nothing causes so many idiotic software problems as calendar. Take the ridiculous "Problem of the year 2000" along…
However, it looks like calendar time needs at least 8 bytes. See here:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/LocalAndGMTTimes.htm[
^].
Then again, idiocy of some programmers dealing with time has no limits. It could be time without date, time with low accuracy or some other kind of purely proprietary foolishness. Anyone can invent one's own representation of time and try to puzzle others. You should ask the authors of that software or find out in documentation.
—SA