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Make Date Fast Function
Coerce Make Class

Public Function MakeDateFast( _
    ByVal vValue As Date _
    ) As String

"Make String From Date (Fast)" or "Coerce Date To String (Fast)"
Coerce a Date value (represented as a Double) into an 8-character string.
Return an eight-character string containing the in-memory representation of the Date value vValue.
Similar to coercing a double value into character string in the C language.
Faster version of the MakeDate function which has restrictive argument types (to avoid argument fix-up overhead).

Examples: 
    MakeDateFast(#4/6/96#) = String$(4, 0) + Chr$(32) + Chr$(43) + Chr$(225) + Chr$(64)
    MakeDateFast(0) = String$(8, 0)
    MakeDateFast(1) = String$(6, 0) + Chr$(240) + Chr$(63)
    MakeDateFast(2.5) = String$(6, 0) + Chr$(4) + Chr$(64)
See also: 
    MakeDate Function
    CoerceToDateFast Function
    MakeDoubleFast Function
    MakeVarType Function
vValue: The Date value whose bytes are to be interpreted as a string.

Note: This function converts the string representation of the value to Unicode using the default code page of the system.
v1.3 Change: Removed 16-bit support from this function.

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