logical time/date operators?

Rob Cozens rcozens at pon.net
Wed Nov 27 11:31:43 EST 2002


>a good idea (i use it, so it must be a good idea ;-) is to convert 
>dates to seconds
>and then do the comparison. So you can even add/subtract half a day etc...

Hi Oliver,

The use of seconds is handy, as Klaus suggested, if one needs to 
add/subtract from the original date/time.

If that isn't necessary, dateItems format works also, and has the 
advantage that one can determine the actual date/time just by looking 
at it.
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Rob Cozens
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