::> If I've got two variables, stored as arrays of 3 bytes:
::> typedef byte DateType[3];
not with this you don't, you've only decared a data type (and incorrectly).
That should be:
typedef char byte;
byte Datatype[3];
::> How do I test whether one is greater than the other?
 if (DataType[0] > DataType[1])
   /*  code  */;
 if (DataType[1] > DataType[2])
   /*  code  */;
Of course, since this is the C++ conf, you should probably encapsulate it in 
a 
class 
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