RW> Agreed, but what makes the DateTime type nice is that it makes it 
 RW> REALLY easy to
 RW> do what I would consider "advanced" date/time math without going 
 RW> through a lot of contortions.  Getting 30 days from now, etc is still 
 RW> really easy with it, but
 RW> it allows you to do a lot of other things, too.  That is what I was 
 RW> really getting at.....
OK, but I've written a lot of programs and I never have needed
to do arithmetic on times (as opposed to dates) except in a few
cases I've needed to count seconds.  At most I've needed to
store the time, say the time a transaction was posted.  I don't
need to know if it was done in the last 30 minutes, whereas I do
need to know if it has been done in the last 30 days.
Jud McCranie
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