Hello Phil!   
      
   Saturday October 08 2016 21:40, you wrote to KEN BOWLEY:   
      
      
      
    KB>> Along with these changes is having MBSE use a time_t rather than   
    KB>> a string when  possible so we can get rid of code (only two   
    KB>> places that I can think of at the  moment) that manipulates a   
    KB>> date string into a   
    KB>> YYYYMMDD format before turning  it into an integer for comparison   
    KB>> and sorting. Ken   
      
    > All the programming lanuages support a date lib that allows you to   
    > compare the dates as mm-dd-year.   
      
   Yes, but the best way of comparing is by yyyymmdd and then you can use a    
   simple   
   if date-1 > date-2 then . . . .   
      
      
      
      
   Vince   
      
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